Peanut butter floor returns to Dutch museum as tribute to late artist
More than 800 pounds of donated peanut butter were spread across the floor for a two-month show honoring artist Wim T. Schippers.
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, reopens the Pindakaasvloer to the public Friday for a two-month show, honoring late Dutch artist Wim Schippers.
- Schippers, who died last month, first created this work in 1969 as part of his Floor Covering Series and voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of Sesame Street.
- Two employees spent last week spreading 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 25-square-meter hexagon, using drywall trowels to apply the mixture to 2 centimeters thickness.
- The installation utilizes more than 800 pounds of peanut butter, enough for around 15,000 sandwiches; Calv donated supplies for the 270-square-foot display previously shown at Central Museum in Utrecht.
- In 1997, visitors placed bread and chocolate sprinkles on the floor in what was described as vandalism, though the work remains remembered for its pungent scent and absurdist challenge to conventional art ideas.
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The museum in Rotterdam has given it to people from different parts of the world, and it has taken about 360 kilograms of money from the kitchen.
Late artist honored with 800 lbs of… peanut butter!? – The Horn News
More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month. The conceptual artist, who died at the age of 83, first created the Pindakaasvloer, or peanut butter floor, in 1969. The work was unveiled on Thursday at the Depot offshoot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam…
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam reinstalled the legendary work of art "Pindakaasvloer" by the late conceptual artist Wim T. Schippers
Museum honours a late artist by covering its floor in enough peanut butter to make 15,000 sandwiches
More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month.
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Museum honors a late artist by covering its floor in enough peanut butter to make 15,000 sandwiches
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died…
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