Fragments of a Conversation with a Counterfeiter – Diego Tonus in collaboration with Anonymous

Description

The project contributes to a discussion about the transformation and transportation of value, questioning the valorisation of time and space in time of crisis. The series of new works derives from an assumed conversation between Diego Tonus and a forger revealing controversial thoughts related to contemporary systems that deal with the definition of value.

Each artwork is the visual translation by the artist of this supposed conversation. Tonus approaches the thoughts of the counterfeiter as if they were his intellectual property, questioning the “counter” of counterfeiting and appropriating his ideas.

In order to share the appropriated forger’s ideas with the international audience, to activate and perform them, the artist has registered the works as trade secrets at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property. The validity of the trade secret is international and lasts 10 years.