Eugenio Merino

Eugenio Merino's (b.1975) work wavers between belief and disbelief, paradox and equality, taste and distaste, respect and offense. The artist often assumes the role of a cynic engaged in showing naked truths and unveiling uncomfortable views of contemporary societies. His earlier works have focused on politics, art, religion and terrorism. By reproducing a kind of Madame Tussauds' museum filled with silicon sculptures, he denounces a world based on the frenetic consumption of images and media representations. The hyperrealistic figures not only duplicate well-known characters but also try to improve them by making the fake more real than the original.