Grocery Receipt Creates Modern Art

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Next time you go to the grocery store, think of it as an artistic experience. If you do, you may receive $62,000 (£30,000) — in Britain at least. In London’s most recent Tate Britain exhibit, a grocery store receipt entitled Monochrome Till Receipt (White) is on display.

The ‘conceptual’ piece is a Morrisons receipt that lists 36 items worth $150 (£70). All of the items are white, including boil-in-the-bag rice and pickled eggs. To make the ‘masterpiece’, the artist gave a list of instructions, requesting that a new receipt be used every time the artwork is shown. Exhibition curator Andrew Wilson was the one to actually purchase the items and follow the instructions dictated to him, which included asking the cashier to ring up the items in a certain order.

The artist, Ceal Floyer, graduated from Goldsmith’s art college in London in 1994. She describes her piece as a modern still life that encourages objects to be imagined rather than shown. Wilson agrees, calling the piece “an imaginative leap of faith from the daily drudge of going to the supermarket to the idea of the domestic still life painting.” Whether or not you believe it’s art, many people apparently do. To me, a receipt is a receipt, but what do you think?

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3 Responses to “Grocery Receipt Creates Modern Art”

  1. It is very interesting

  2. This is not the stupidest piece of “art” I’ve seen (that would be a 2′x4′ canvas painted solid orange titled “M”) but it is a very close second. I will give the (ahem)”artist” a smidgeon of credit for the thought put into the concept but, without some sort of aesthetic merit, this is not art.

  3. I had the displeasure of viewing the Ceal Floyer exhibition yesterday at KW gallery in Berlin. From the playboy bunny insignia to the used pen tester sheets upstairs culminating in the white receipt, the whole exhibition felt incredibly cheap, immature and short on talent.
    Picasso when confronted with young artists explaining the idea behind their work would frequently tell them to shut up and paint.. I would have liked him to meet Ceal Floyer.

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