Under the title "le Rien en Or" ("Nothingness in Gold") Dieter Meier has gold-plated not only the golden ball, but also 11 ordinary objects in Zurich's city centre: bridge railings, traffic signs, lamp posts and drainpipes. This gold-plating is intended to draw attention to the objects. The culmination of the exhibition series was the unveiling of the Gold-plated Century Ball in Zurich Main Station on 9 May 2008.
The Gold-plated Century Ball ("La Boule d'Or Centenaire") is displayed in an illuminated glass case in the floor of the station concourse with the object of drawing attention to nothingness and insignificance. In the next 100 years the ball will be taken out on the following eight dates and rolled 12 metres along a wooden gangway as a demonstration of transience: 9 May 2008, 5 June 2008, 18 September 2016, 28 August 2033 , 12 June 2064, 21 July 2082, 18 January 2097, 9 May 2108. It also made this journey outside a gambling casino in Hamburg on 26 April 2008.
This video provides you with some atmospherical shots of the performance at Zürich Main Station on September 18, 2016.
Dieter Meier is president of the Association des Maitres de Rien (Association of the Masters of Nothingness), a gathering of artists devoted to the realisation of insignificance.
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