Raimundo CAMILO [Brazilian] (b. 1939/43) - Lot 45

Raimundo CAMILO [Brazilian] (b. 1939/43) Untitled Ballpoint pen and double-sided watercolor. Unsigned. 8.5 x 15.5 cm Provenance : Collection Jean-Jacques Plaisance, Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris. Related works: Emancipation, Centre d'étude de l'Expression and the Centre Sainte Anne, 2012, catalog, reproduced, pp. 8-9 and 10. Raimundo Camilo creates imaginary banknotes from recycled paper, such as that found in cigarette packets. By stripping money of its market value and retaining only its visual aspect, he invents a personal form of communication. His bills, meticulously crafted with a red Bic pen on razor-cut paper, feature faces and numbers in a network of dots and lines. Hand-glossed, they become the elements of a "lottery of illusion".