“I grabbed an old Sol LeWitt certificate of authenticity, got some Wite-Out, whited out the details of his work and just quickly wrote in the details of mine and photocopied it a few times.”
– Blockchain artist
Rhea Myers, on the origins of
Certificate of Inauthenticity (2020). From 2011 to 2012, Myers commissioned 3D-printed
Shareable Readymades from art history’s canon and rendered “sarcastic certificates” upon the exhibiting gallery’s request. “I don’t own the copyright in the works,” Myers notes, “that’s part of the concept of the project.”
