Xu Qu
Subtitle: currency wars
By: introduction and interview by Jérôme Sans
Contributors: Xu, Qu, 1978- artist, interviewee; Almine Rech Gallery
Publisher: Almine Rech Gallery
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9782930573205
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Money in art
Other titles: Currency wars
Description: In the 'Currency Wars' series, Xu Qu uses different watermarks of banknotes from across the world to create colourful abstract compositions. The resulting artwork is therefore functioning both as a cultural and financial vehicle, reflecting how the artwork often becomes a commodity. With this huge body of work, the artist suggests a monetary system that is out of control and raises questions specific to the idea of power in our contemporary world, and how far its continuous mutation can go. With stakes of a simultaneously oversized, abstract, and absurd nature, this ongoing series talks about the global economy war with currencies from around the globe and how emerging countries have reversed the value of their currency and have changed the global face of the economy. Some may disappear while others reappear with importance and force.
Notes: "Edition of 800"--Colophon.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 7 October-14 November 2015.

Text in English and French.