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| Irene Anton At first, these series of quilts seem to be a number of different harmless looking images, done in bright and powerful colours, but at the second view, you’ll discover images of arms and weapons, environmental pollution, logos and names of global players which are powerful in a way. They already conquisted the whole planet with their products, destroying smaller companies and are permanently extorting poorer countries “offering” them contracts with pretty bad conditions to buy their products. They are also exploiting “illegal” immigrants in their own countries“ working like modern slaves for rather nothing in the legendary “sweatshops”. These series show a wide range of problems which started with the history of colonialism, where the roots of the globalization nowadays are. I choose silk in my work because it’s a symbolic material for luxury, the luxury of some selected countries who are profitting by the globalization; it’s a shiny, smothy and comfortable material presented in a clear minimalist asthetic, characterizing the coloured and expensive world of capitalism. To quilt silk gives the sensation of making scars into the material, torturing it stich by stich. It’s an adequate technic and material to caracterize our planet like an injured body. The small silkquilts in a way are “wounded” by nasty images and examples working as a mirror of our society. The title of my work is an ironical comment to the former advertsing campain of Benetton, using images of people in emerging situations and reducing them to the function of being an eyecatcher that provokes a scandal of an unforgettable publicity campain-Capitalism coquetting with poverty and and misfortune. In this way, with my title I am turning round the meaning again showing real existing problems in an asthetical “package”. Irene Anton  Download CV |  United colors of capitalism, 2007 |
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