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Eugenio Merino

Miss Burka

2008

Felt pen on paper

76 × 56 cm

Unique

Location: Paris, France

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About the artwork

Like a counterpart to Wonder Woman, this felt-tip drawing features a female figure draped in a burqa on a white background. A scarf bisects her bust and bears the words "Miss Burka". Eugenio Merino creates an ironic dialogue between two opposing worlds: religion and the beauty contests of Western culture. This confrontation gives rise to a critique of the vision of women and current feminist issues. Between hiding all feminine attributes in the burqa and reducing women to their physical appearance by judging their beauty according to defined Western codes, women are reduced to an attractive and dangerous carnal envelope. The sarcasm of this drawing is characteristic of Eugenio Merino's work, which questions the most sensitive issues of our societies by confronting their contradictions.

Expert opinion

Eugenio Merino's works skilfully blend drama and humour to highlight complex, sometimes shameful truths. Although the Spanish artist is best known for his hyper-realistic installations and sculptures, this drawing is part of the artist's cross-disciplinary practice, while also responding to his usual preoccupations. This work is a perfect critique of society's different visions of women, and can be placed alongside Wonder Woman.

About the artist

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).

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