has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
PLATA O PLOMBO (SILVER OR LEAD)
2016
120 (h) x 100 (w) x 4 cm
acrylic and oil on canvas
About the title: plata o plombo, silver or lead. In short, it means 'Accept this money or get shot'. Accept a bribe or be assasinated. Do what the hell I tell you and I will make it worth your while or I will blow your head off. This is a common term especially for the Mexican drug cartels today but it was first systematically used by the drug lord Pablo Escobar to establish his brutal Columbian narco empire.
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"Las mentiras son necesarias cuando la verdad es muy difícil de creer." (Lies are necessary when the truth is very hard to believe.)
Pablo Escobar
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
