Poteshni Muzhik.
The current exhibition at the recently opened Newlyn Exhange Gallery in Penzance titled, 'The Abolition of Work' by collaborative artists David Cross and Matthew Cornford, explores our relationship with the currency by creating a visual spectacle containing over three quarters of a million penny coins.
The title of the show, taken by a pamphlet by the Anarchist Bob Black, asserts that 'work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world' and advocates the complete transformation of society towards a life based on play.
Following research in the Penzance area, the artists became interested in its history with copper; the copper mining alongside tin mining, Newlyn Copper and the Industrial Classes and the idea of coins being a form of exchange.
