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Eugenio Merino, CELEBRATING DESTRUCTION
29May
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Eugenio Merino, CELEBRATING DESTRUCTION

Thru July 20, 2012, the Jerome Zodo Contemporary Gallery (Italy’s Milan) is presenting Celebrating Destruction, the first-ever individual exhibition in that country by artist Eugenio Merino.

 

Merino starts off from pop and esthetic culture of the mass media in an effort to traipse down the contemporary dualities expressed between hypocrisy and honesty, reality and lies, respect and offense, playfulness and seriousness. Therefore, the end result is always thin-layered irony and watertight cynicism. A good case in point is the artwork the exhibition is named after, in which the content of a champagne bottle is condensed to come up with an atomic cloud.

 

This exhibition boils down to a matured, creative and ambitious stage in which the author has redirected his look over the hypocrisies that tag along the dynamics of power, especially everything related to war.

 

Eugenio Merino (Madrid, 1975) is a controversial artist who has gotten a name for himself in today’s contemporary art arena by the hand of his acute provocations. Many remember the piece presented in ARCOmadrid entitled Always Franco, in which the General was preserved in a Coca-Cola icebox. He has exhibited in the Netherlands, Finland, New York, Belgium, China, among others. 

 

Jerome Zodo Contemporary
Via Lambro, 7 – 20129, Milan, Italy

 

Source: Press release