Acrylic, ink, correction pen on paper. Dimension variable.

Description

Vũ Dân Tân produced his Money series from the early-1990s into the 2000s referring to the concepts of state, nation, economy, trade, borders, and dreams of borderless freedom. Over the decade the series evolved when, in addition to early representations of money, after 1996 the artist developed dollar-scaled, duplicated and hand-coloured currency notes that could function like real money. The series as a whole was called Money by the artist in his lifetime, but in texts published after the artist’s death, researcher Iola Lenzi labelled money mimicking currency bills Money (currency), categorised as a subseries of Money. Within the Money (currency) subseries, various sub-subseries related to national currency and themes have also been determined.

Text by Iola Lenzi, PhD, Historian of Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. Lenzi has conducted extensive research on the contemporary practice of Vũ Dân Tân, located in the context of contemporary art in 1990s Hanoi.