Il Gesu

90x120 cm

oil on canvas, 2014

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Companion piece to the painting “In Gold we trust”. It depicts the side of St. Ignatius chapel situated in the Church of Gesu, the mother church of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Being the most opulent of all altars it represents the mammonist side of any religion, not only Roman-Catholic. The rich decoration is the true opposite of Church’s preaching about the exalted state of poverty, thus becoming the symbol of hypocrisy.