Niko Abramidis &NE, Big Roll 500 €, 2020

2020

Medium

Textile printing, foam and styrofoam

Dimensions

45 × 45 cm

Edition

Edition of 25

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156002

Cash is disappearing from our everyday lives, being increasingly replaced by digital payment methods. The former importance and advantages of cash have now become anachronistic in times of transparent people and online banking. Unlike cashless payment methods, however, banknotes absorb traces of everyday life during the course of their circulation and are individual testimonies of their users. The wad of money embodies our national economy and is a symbol of wealth and power. The works in the Big Roll series not only serve as static objects with the side effect of metaphorically satisfying the basic human need to “sit on money”. This obvious representation of money dares the viewer to envisage the unimaginable sums of money of the economic crisis and the immense sums that are still tied up in complex financial systems. The colour of the rubber band as well as the small drawings on the banknotes vary for each edition number and make each Big Roll 500 € a unique object.