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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 More than 800 pounds of peanut butter \u2014 enough for around 15,000 sandwiches \u2014 has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands<\/span> in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month.<\/p>\n

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The conceptual artist, who died at the age of 83, first created the Pindakaasvloer, or peanut butter floor, in 1969. The work was unveiled on Thursday at the Depot offshoot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam<\/span> for a two-month show.<\/p>\n

Schippers was a beloved non-conformist character in the Netherlands, where he also voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of \u201cSesame Street,\u201d<\/span> and created absurdist and silly works that challenged conventional ideas about the meaning of art.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t it fantastic that we are all standing here looking at peanut butter?\u201d Schippers told journalists gathered at the Central Museum in Utrecht in 1997 where Pindakaasvloer was on display for the second time.<\/p>\n

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AP correspondent Donna Warder reports on an unusual piece of art in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Schippers created the work as part of a Floor Covering Series, which also included floors covered with glass shards and salt. <\/p>\n

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The aroma, redolent of breakfasts and lunch boxes, is what lingers with many who experience the work first hand. Museum staff directed visitors for the opening to \u201cfollow the smell\u201d which was wafting by the ticket counter, three floors below where the artwork is laid out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing I remember is the smell,\u201d Mieke Weismann told The Associated Press. The food photographer and writer saw the 1997 exhibition as a teenager. <\/p>\n

The art installation may not be for everybody. A sign at the museum\u2019s entrance warns visitors with peanut allergies that they might not want to enter the space.<\/p>\n

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It took two employees of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen several days to spread 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 25-square-meter (270-square-foot) hexagon last week. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of work,\u201d Leon Duenk, one of the two men who installed the artwork, told AP. <\/p>\n

The pair used drywall trowels to smear the peanut butter to a thickness of 2 centimeters (0.8 inch).<\/p>\n

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Prior to his death the museum and Schippers discussed how to recreate the work in the future, producing a 20-point plan that included the requirement to apply the peanut butter \u201cas smoothly and boringly as possible\u201d and that \u201cno one is supposed to stand in, or lie down on the peanut butter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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