Collaboration Peter Hill and J.J. Voss (Photographer)
S U P E R F I C T I O N S
Bank of Oklahoma PLC
Bank of Oklahoma PLC is a fictional organisation that seeks to subvert the art
world. According to their catalogue entry in For Real,
"Banco di Oklahoma" has proceeded from a cultural group, founded in 1975. It
employs economical strategies that characterise our western, capitalist,
society.
Marco Senaldi and The Bank of Oklahoma
Money as a guarantee for life, development, and power; money creating art.
Bance di Oklahoma settled down in the artistic system as an intruder. With
its own money the bank buys art from young artists and the rise of the value
of their work increases the value of the Oklahoma money. Banco di Oklahoma
is officially registered at the Italian Chamber of Commerce, yet on the other
hand, despite this status of reality, it holds the mirror up to the economical
market mechanism. The economic value of a work of art obviously can be expressed
in self-created money as well as in hard currency. In other words - how real
exactly are the sums of money paid for art in auctions and galleries?