October 8th, 2008 
Spooky Well the last thing any of us would do is laying it all on the asphalt as a beautiful mosaic right? Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister Inc. did just that during the first edition of Biennale, in Amsterdam. Entitled “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better“, Sagmeister’s work of art was made out of around 300,000 euro- cent coins set up on a 20×42 square meters surface. This intricate installation was a challenge to all passers-by, with so much money at stake, would people leave it alone and appreciate its beauty or would they just go for the money out of greed?
After the show was over the complex art piece was simply sweeped away with a brush.
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Uhmmm, the are 1cent coins, not 1 euro coins. That means your title is off by a factor of 100. 3000 euro in coins is still a large sum, but not as crazy as you suggested. /Methinks it is about the art, not the money?
Yep, I just wanted to say the same. But then, I guess 3000 Euros doesn’t sound quite as great as a title…
And swiping a couple of 1 Cent coins doesn’t seem to be worth the trouble, so it’s no big surprise that most people probably just walked on by totally un-tempted.
Sorry for the mix-up guys, those were indeed euro-cent coins.