Carlos Aires Spain, b. 1974
Desastre CLXXI, 2019
Digital print on “Fine Art Hahnemuler” paper, original banknote, cardboard, parpastu, hand-dyed wooden frame with antireflective museum glass.
25 x 33 x 3,5 cm (framed)
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Disasters is a series started in 2013 made of real banknotes and photographs taken from mass media. The banknote comes from the same country in the photos in the collage....
Disasters is a series started in 2013 made of real banknotes and photographs taken from mass media. The banknote comes from the same country in the photos in the collage. Thus, the artist points out that money is the only link between all catastrophes and disasters generated by humans, including many of the seemingly natural ones. The value of money once was the amount of precious metal that the coin contained, and the value of a banknote was related to the amount of gold that the country possessed. Currently it is a piece of paper with a specific value fixed by a global agreement. While notes are not entirely of the person who possesses, in fact it is a loan from the Bank of the country. Therefore, the destruction of a banknote is illegal because it is not entirely in our possession.