"How long is a piece of string? David Shrigley can't answer that, but he can tell you how much it weighs: 10 tonnes, apparently. His latest installation is literally an exhibition of 10 tonnes of old rope, accumulated by him over months, and left in towering mounds in this swanky gallery in London's Mayfair. Most of it is marine rope, destined for landfill. It's hard to recycle this stuff, it seems, and there's an endless supply of it dumped around the world."
"So Shrigley scooped up as much of it as he could find, piled it up and put a massive price tag on it. The work can be yours for 1m. And that's the point of the show: this is literally money for old rope. It's not that deep it's just an idea taken to its logical conclusion, an idiom taken too far, a pun taken too literally. It's obscene, ridiculous and funny."
David Shrigley's installation is ten tonnes of salvaged rope he collected over months and piled into towering mounds in a Mayfair gallery. Most rope is marine-grade destined for landfill and difficult to recycle, sourced from climbing schools, tree surgeons, offshore wind farms and scaffolders. The work is offered for sale at £1m, framing a literal interpretation of the idiom 'money for old rope' and satirizing the monetary valuation of ideas in contemporary art. The piece echoes Shrigley's deadpan, visual one-liners and resembles familiar conceptual installations of discarded rubbish presented with ironic knowingness.
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