| Nominal
Values |
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| Intervention
in the circulation of money (jointly with Esteban Alvarez) |
| (2005
- 2006) |
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| After
having added elaborate drawings on bills (Argentinean pesos),
they were presented as payment in the normal course of purchases
and debt cancellation. Each employee or businessman or woman
had the authority to accept or reject them, thus determining
their fate. The bills that were accepted continue to circulate
as legal tender; the bills that were rejected entered into
the art circuit as drawings. |
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| El
arte no nos libera de absolutamente nada |
| ACC
Galerie, Weimar, Germany |
| 2006 |
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| Arte
y Capital |
| Curator:
Viviana Usubiaga |
| Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina |
| 2005 |
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II
Bienal de Jafré
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| Curators
Mario Flecha and Carolina Grau |
| Jafré,
Spain |
| 2005 |
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Nominal
Values
(text published in Canecalón magazine, No. 11,
Buenos Aires, 2006) |
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Money is a tired cliché; whether we like it
or not, it connects us, everyone to everyone. In "Nominal
Values", a project that began last year, we make drawings
with ball-point pens-somewhat [pueriles] but precise-on the
bills that we use day to day, pushing the limits of their
being accepted. With every purchase, the person who has the
last word on the validity of the bill presented is the person
receiving it. And when that person, that authority, decides
that it no longer serves for monetary exchange in the real
world, the bill then passes on to the art world. |
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| We present
a fragment of this project here, in the form of documentation
of the images and destination [destino] of some of the bills
that were accepted at the point of making a purchase or paying
for some service, and that continue to circulate today. We
also reproduce one of the bills that was "rejected", now forming
part of the art world. |
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