Eugenio Merino

Born in 1975 in Spain. Lives and works in Madrid (Spain). A graduate of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Eugenio Merino is a Spanish artist who uses drawing, video, sculpture and installations to create engaged works. His art tackles the most burning issues in our society, exploring politics, economics and religion. Not without irony, his hyper-realistic works are known for their critique of capitalism and its excesses. He also questions the excesses of the art market and its players, such as fairs, gallery owners and certain artists who turn art into a subject for calculation and speculation. His sculpture For the love of Go(l)d questions Damien Hirst's gold skull For the love of God, known as the most expensive work in the world, whose intrinsic value has boosted the British artist's stock price. Eugenio Merino's work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and fairs, including ARCO (Madrid, Spain), Art Brussels (Brussels, Belgium), FIAC (Paris, France) and B.P.S 22 (Charleroi, Belgium). The artist also collaborates with the Spanish magazine Mongolia, which, in the vein of Charlie Hebdo or Le Canard Enchaîné, expresses a certain political activism through the pen and satire. Eugenio Merino is represented by Unix Gallery (New York, USA) and ADN Galeria (Barcelona, Spain).