Una curatela di Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager presso Galerie Lo Scalo – The theme of money, cash, and currency is a powerful and frequently controversial subject that offers artists a direct lens to examine contemporary society. Money is fundamentally a symbol of power, value, greed, and exchange, but is also intrinsically linked to themes of status, aspiration, and societal control. Although the subject can be seen as inherently vulgar, artists often explore it with critical, ironic, and subversive intent. In Art History, the theme gained immense traction from the mid-20th century onward, particularly with the rise of Pop Art, which embraced mass culture and commerce. Andy Warhol is perhaps the most famous artist to use this motif; his Dollar Signs series from 1981 (painting/screenprint) transforms the currency symbol into an iconic, repeated abstraction, questioning its status and value. Another key artist is Cildo Meireles, whose provocative Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Cédulas (1970) involves stamping critical messages onto banknotes. The celebrated German photographer Andreas Gursky has created large-scale, hyper-detailed images of global financial centres and transactions, monumentalizing the spaces where wealth is generated and exchanged.