Two Bored Artists Create a Mini Art Museum for Their Gerbils
From the gerbil art museum, courtesy of Filippo Lorenzin
If we all could make such productive and creative use of our available time as London-based museum curator Filippo Lorenzin and artist Marianna Benetti.
After over two weeks of being at home and isolated, they decided to recreate famous artworks in miniature as a tiny gerbil art museum, in gerbil themes and gerbil-safe materials (mostly cardboard). The recreations included Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Johannes Vermeer’s The Girl With the Pearl Earring, and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
The gerbils, named Pandoro and Tiramisu (apparently their foodies), have taken to their new space.
We’re guessing it will last for about 2 weeks before they chew their way through it. Ah, art is so ephemeral!
As promised, this is the full video of our gerbils visiting the museum. No gerbils or gallery assistants were harmed in the making of this. from r/aww
