Radoš Antonijević’s “One Man’s Garden” was launched in early April with an extraordinary art intervention called “Potato Eaters”, during which the artist planted potatoes in the public open space of the deck in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska.
The exhibition closed with a tour led by the artist himself, during which he asked the visitors to help him end the performance lasting several months by digging potatoes out together.
The potatoes had grown for several months in front of the Museum after being put in moulds in the shape of Vincent Van Gogh’s portraits, and were dug out of the ground on the occasion and given away to the visitors for free.
It will be up to the visitors themselves to choose what they want to do with the “pieces of art” they have been given – use them as seeds to plant new potatoes, eat them or preserve them in their original shape as sculptures and put them to better use or increase their artistic merit. May the circle close!