MONOPOLY

104x104 "Painting-Sculpture" in bas-relief on wooden panel built by hand by the author. Materials used: oil and acrylic paints, epoxy resin, cigarette butts, sticks, blades of dried grass, playing cards, pieces of glass. 2019.

Inspired by the sight of some people burning their money in a bar "Slot Machine" while I was sipping coffee. For my temperament and maybe for my education I have never smoked, never drank apart from the "shot" and never played without a soccer card. By nature I have always been a subversive "upside down". Having a State that, instead of protecting and helping people to get out of their misfortunes, helps them to ruin themselves completely, profiting from the vices of those poor people, I find it disgusting and unacceptable. The same State that has become moralistic by taking away "closed houses" controllable, at the same time favoring a wild prostitution on the street and now also on the Web. The same state that tells us "Smoking kills" but sells us cigarettes, that tells us "Don't drink when you drive" and sells us alcohol freely, that tells us "Play the right game" instead of banning gambling.