Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…Alongside this polyptych, four works from 2011-2012 (Life of An Average Caesar, Once Upon a Time, What For and C'era una Volta) offer food for thought on Rome's imperial past, with a subtle ironic vein, for which the historical treasures of the past become the dust on which we walk now. In Marta Czok's vision, history is made up of continuous change, concealed by a collective imagination that sees a dimension of eternity in what is, however, ephemeral: like a Julius Caesar who symbolically appears and disappears from the scene, so the riches of the Roman Empire become ruins in a city in constant motion: a deliberately ambiguous comment on how every empire rises and crumbles, and with it its own ideological values.…”
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