A museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands is recreating a conceptual art installation by Wim T. Schippers by covering a gallery floor with peanut butter. Multiple outlets report that staff spread more than 800 pounds (about 363 kg) of peanut butter across a large hexagonal area, described as roughly 270 square feet (about 25 square metres). The work is titled Pindakaasvloer, or “Peanut butter floor,” and it is presented as a recreation of an earlier piece Schippers first conceived in 1962 and exhibited in 1969. The installation is being shown as a tribute to Schippers following his death last month, with the museum presenting it in one of its galleries at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Sources also describe details of Schippers’ intent for the installation, including that he wanted it applied smoothly and without an educational purpose. Accounts vary on whether the floor is explicitly described as returning to the museum or being recreated, but they consistently describe the same artist, location, quantity of peanut butter, and the hexagonal floor layout.
