Lot 214
Vladimír Merta (1957) FROM THE CYCLE GREAT FINANCIAL SCANDAL

1993
Assemblage, hardboard, acrylics, lacquer
122 x 50 cm (h x w)
Lower right "V. Merta 93"

Starting price
130 000 CZK
   |   5 417 €

In the Great Financial Scandal cycle, Vladímír Merta raises the important question of whether the currency is subject to changes, what it is used for, what its character is and what its sphere of influence is. In the cycle, the coin is constantly transformed - it forms various groups from them, reveals them and covers them or lets them symbolically fall into the center of the colored matter to create some kind of craters on its surface - traces and ripples. Vladimír Merta richly elaborated this topic in his work, similarly to various other characteristic elements of today - technology, information and disinformation.