Using countless fragments of world currencies C.K. WILDE creates collages that speak to the myriad ways in which money intersects with culture, politics and society. Wilde's colorful narrative images employ currency as both a formal investigation and visual critique of money's capacity for divisiveness and destruction. He draws upon sources as varied as American agriculture, weapons of mass destruction, fables and fairytales, the political imagery of Francisco Goya and Diego Rivera and the illusory concept of "Money for Nothing." In intricately wrought collages Wilde points to the forces that separate us, simultaneously evoking our present state of global unrest. pavelzoubok.com
'Paper Tiger' by C. K. Wilde, 2010.
'The Great Crash' 2005.
'The Great Crash' detail, 2005.
'Quixotic Ambition' by C. K. Wilde, 2006.
Windmills are replaced with oil derricks; Don Quixote becomes a mounted World War I–era German soldier occupying Holland.
'One out of Many' (self portrait detail)
by C. K. Wilde, 2006.
'Hermes in the Temple'
by M.R.Wagner and C. K. Wilde, 2006.
'Saturn Eating his Children' 2006.
Cash Cow/ Sacred Chao
by C. K. Wilde, 2009.
'Against the common Good' 2005.
"Through the ages art has borne witness to the suffering that power inflicts upon the powerless. Wilhelm Worringer wrote that art is, 'Creation in order to subdue the torment of perception." C. K. Wilde.
'No Saben El Camino' (WU) 2006.
"The wealthy use my visual critiques of the very system of power that supports our lives as decoration for their homes; art as a cultural icon or a talisman of their political awareness is a wild thicket of ironies. I must confront my own willingness to forget my complicity in the suffering in the world in order to maintain this esoteric practice of making art. Is it ultimately philosophically untenable to justify the production of art objects in a world so troubled? I convince myself that the world needs my work as much as I need it, that by making this work I am participating in the global dialectic of humanity." —C. K. Wilde
'Goldfish' close-up 2006.
C.K. WILDE is a co-founder of the non-profit Booklyn Artists Alliance and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His collages and book objects are in numerous private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center.
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