Maria Cruz
November 7 - December 31, 2006
210 Loring St., 1300 Pasay City, Philippines
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"Coins"
November 7 - December 31, 2006
In Maria Cruz’s
works she followed her concept of- what would so much coin
look like in colour on canvas. The compositions are based on
chance and the colour black and were informed by Russian
constructivist paintings.
According
to her, “Wealth and currency form the driving imperatives
of our society. They may even crystallize our sense of
struggle in relation to life and death. One Million Dollars
emerges from Maria Cruz's considerations of the social
values placed upon money, from hard cash to intangible
digital data. As Cruz states, generally speaking, it is hard
not to like money. And so this project evolved with the goal
of gathering and seeing the impressions one million
Australian dollars on a flat surface, in colour. Knowing
that what is presented is a recreated and devalued version
of One Million Dollars creates an interesting tension with
the cultural drive to honour, even worship, and 'value-add'
to money as social force."
For exhibition enquiries, please
contact Mimi Santos or Chona Galvez
at 831-9990 or email Duemila@mydestiny.net
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