Deutsches Historisches Museum - Verf�hrung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945 - Blog

The Romanian artist, Dan Perjovschi, takes 69 seconds to draw his picture on the wall in our exhibition space. In 69 seconds the word ‘capitalism’ is split in two and illustrated. ‘Capital’ gets a stick figure and the ‘ism’ a whole crowd of them. Once or twice the artist steps back a bit and looks at the drawing. Then he enlarges the ‘ism’ group.  

“A man found an aquarium on a road between towns—an aquarium with live fish in it. Someone had caught the fish in the lake and put them there on the road, hoping someone driving along the road would stop and buy the fresh fish. That is called a parallel economy—in contrast to the organised economy planned by the government and the state. This parallel economy developed as a way of survival.”