By: Michelle Martin
BERLIN (REUTERS).- An artist who wanted to make art more accessible has installed vending machines across Germany offering unique art miniatures in small boxes. Lars Kaiser, a 35-year-old artist from Potsdam, said he came up with the novel idea to give art lovers the chance to buy the inexpensive art samples from vending machines around the clock. He has installed about 100 of the uniquely decorated art vending machines in public buildings, bars and on exterior walls throughout Germany. The refurbished vending machines once sold cigarettes, chewing gum or condoms in the 1960s and 1970s. “We wanted to get art into places that don’t have anything to do with art so that it would become a part of everyday life,” Kaiser told Reuters. The one-off sculptures, collages and paintings fit into small boxes which the machines sell. They have been created by about 140 professional artists. The vending machines are also pieces of art themselves in a wide array of colors a