
Willy Kautz - Jippies Asquerosos
Quid Pro Quo (the secret), 2018
Gold leaf on cotton paper
14 x 14 in
35.6 x 35.6 cm
35.6 x 35.6 cm
Edition 11 of 20
Kautz- Jippies Asquerosos expands on gold's spiritual and materialistic implications in his gilded works on paper. Willy Kautz critically broadens the legacy of Mathias Goeritz by referring to his 'Metachromatic...
Kautz- Jippies Asquerosos expands on gold's spiritual and materialistic implications in his gilded works on paper.
Willy Kautz critically broadens the legacy of Mathias Goeritz by referring to his "Metachromatic Messages" to merge through written quotes with the design of a font or alphabet by Fray Gabriel Chavez de la Mora (1929-2022), who was actually a student of Goeritz at the Guadalajara University School of Architecture, of the spirituality of gold and its financial speculation as assets, establishing a synergy between rationality and desire, between faith and pragmatism, between art-object and this as merchandise governed by the art market.
Willy Kautz critically broadens the legacy of Mathias Goeritz by referring to his "Metachromatic Messages" to merge through written quotes with the design of a font or alphabet by Fray Gabriel Chavez de la Mora (1929-2022), who was actually a student of Goeritz at the Guadalajara University School of Architecture, of the spirituality of gold and its financial speculation as assets, establishing a synergy between rationality and desire, between faith and pragmatism, between art-object and this as merchandise governed by the art market.