SUPERFLEX — Euphoria Now

NT$55,500 ／ Limited to 6

• Digital print on 120–150 g uncoated paper, A1 CMYK, edition of 50 + 0 AP, 2015.
• Collector’s value €1,500; NT$ locked at launch-day exchange rate and does not fluctuate.
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity and two Full-Access Passes to Sonic Shaman.

About Euphoria Now

Euphoria Now is an ongoing series of paintings based on the colour schemes of global currencies. Starting in 2016 with the seven colours of the euro notes: US Dollars, Euro, Chinese Yuan, Singapore Dollars, Pound Sterling and Australian Dollars, the paintings now exist in several editions to mark the many different currencies and economies that constitute our global market. Each painting is thus named after the currency it represents — Euphoria Now/Euro, Euphoria Now/US Dollars, and so on. The originals are made using spray enamel and acrylics, with background colours taken from the colour scheme of Swiss national banknotes. This edition is the digital-print version of the series.

The work in its original form was part of the solo exhibition of the same title, Euphoria Now!, at von Bartha in 2015. The exhibition investigated economic structures and power relations as a form of reality-loss. The conceptual starting point for the series was the discovery of a so-called “dream machine” from the 1970s: by staring at a sequence of flickering lights, various colour patterns appear and create a hypnagogic hallucination — supposedly encouraging artistic production. By directly referring to the colours of currencies, SUPERFLEX transferred the concept of the dream machine into contemporary society’s greatest hypnagogic hallucination of all: money.

About SUPERFLEX

Founded in 1993 in Copenhagen by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen, SUPERFLEX describes their works as “tools” — instruments deployed across design, film, sculpture, public commissions and cross-disciplinary collaboration to engage with economic structures, energy politics, ecological systems and post-Anthropocene imaginaries. Their works are held in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, SFMOMA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and other major institutions worldwide.