德藝術家沙灘埋30金條 英國民衆掀起尋金熱

The gold bars, worth a total of £10,000 (13,000 euros, $17,000), were buried in Folkestone, southeast England, by Berlin-based Michael Sailstorfer as part of an upcoming arts festival.

Members of the public will be allowed to keep any of the 24-carat bullion which they find.

"There are 30 gold bars buried there, along with a lot of washers, so if you bring your metal detector you will find a lot of washers before you find any gold," festival curator Lewis Biggs told the BBC.

"We will never know if the gold has been found or not."

One treasure hunter, John Coker, told the Guardian newspaper: "It is the first art in the world where I've hopped in a car and drove to see it straight away, so that's something."

The bars, worth around £300 each, are a few centimeters long.

The Folkestone Triennial's website said the German artist behind the project was interested in "the disruption of the everyday".

"Sailstorfer is intent on expanding the notion of classical sculpture and Folkestone Digs is a continuation of his aim 'to make art that comes less from the head and more from the stomach,'" it said.

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英國肯特郡福克斯通一個平日人跡罕至的沙灘近日吸引了大批稀客，他們帶齊挖沙裝備，由早到晚長期作戰，目的是尋找德國行爲藝術家邁克爾?塞斯托夫早前埋下的30條24K金條。

這批金條共30條，每條長約2寸，總值達1萬英鎊（約10萬元人民幣），是塞斯托夫對當地一個藝術節的“參展作品”。儘管藝術節週六纔開幕，塞斯托夫告訴人們從當地時間28日下午4：00起大家便可開始“掘金”，且淘到的金子全部歸自己所有。

自英國媒體報道了沙灘埋金的消息，大批淘金者隨即涌至，直至黃昏已有約200人前來。有淘金者表示只要找到一條金條留念便心滿意足，但也有人希望由此一朝致富。

由於金條所埋沙灘僅在退潮時纔可前往，這意味着淘金者每天的尋寶時間極其有限。現在的季節，退潮時間爲上午6：00至11：30，以及下午4：00至9：00。據報道，在未來數天內，這些被分割成10克、20克的金條或將吸引數千人前來。

此次尋寶活動被冠名“福克斯通大尋寶”，由布裏斯托爾設計師協會贊助。該協會負責人克萊爾?多爾蒂表示：“公共藝術資金常常被用於靜態雕塑或其他小玩意上，而我們正在進行的活動將產生更大影響，將創造長期集體記憶。”