...And the day trippers on their folding chairs will shrug their shoulders when they see the work of the English angry young man Chris Dobrowolski. Cheap Cheap is a sound installation set up in the petting zoo, in the pig pen for the fat black boar. The enticing 'cheap, cheap, cheap' sounds, in different pitches, come from two bird boxes covered with pennies.
It is an indictment by Dobrowolski against the contemporary art world, where everything is quickly considered 'too expensive', but also a reference to Dutch frugality and to the sheep mentality of man ('cheap' sounds a bit like 'sheep'). "I can keep it," says the woman who manages the children's farm. "In the beginning I was driven crazy by that ssip sip sip, but now I don't hear it anymore. Quite a lot of people pass by, with the route map in their hand. Others want to know if they should put money into it. Then I say it's art...It's just a pity that the goats ate the explanation plate." |