The validity of every classic —artist, thinker— implies that the discursive effects of the past continue to challenge, vividly, the world of the present. Marx's thought is a flagrant example. The God of Money is based on excerpts from the German author's celebrated chapter on the power of money from his 1884 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. At the time, Marx was a young defiant and critical of an emerging world of uncontrolled greed and consumption.

The original images of the Spanish illustrator Maguma serve as a critical and communicative tool to question the consumer debauchery promoted by market economies. Illustrations that recreate this celebrated diatribe against minds numbed by the power of money, in the context of contemporary developments, where the spread of greed on a global scale has almost led to the death of the commons.

Inspired by the biblical account of the Fall, the artist represents, through surreal strokes that nod to the art of El Bosco, a world continually traversed by an insatiable desire for accumulation. Impressive prints that express, from a new perspective, Marx's perceptions about the effects of money, and invite us to remember why his critique of capitalist society is more relevant than ever.