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From April 17 to 20, 2025, Carlos Bautista brings his artistic vision to World Art Dubai, presenting the Art Money Powerseries, a powerful reflection on the role of money in contemporary society. In an era of profound transformations, the artist overturns the traditional narrative of wealth, turning it into an opportunity to generate culture, innovation, and beauty.
His works, created with a luxurious finish on metal, fit perfectly within the urban and cultural fabric of Dubai, a city that embodies the fusion of avant-garde and tradition, economic power and visionary creativity. Here, where money has shaped a futuristic architectural landscape, Bautista proposes a new paradigm: money as a constructive force, capable of elevating art as a constant reference point for the future.
The concept of Art Money Power finds a surprising resonance with the Museum of the Future in Dubai, a place that explores innovative scenarios for humanity. While the museum imagines tomorrow through technology and science, Bautista uses the language of art to question how economic value can be redirected toward creativity and social progress.
His works, with reflective surfaces and compositions that evoke dynamism and change, seem almost to mirror the futuristic architecture of the city. How can we use wealth to create a more inclusive, more aesthetic, more meaningful world? His art does not offer definitive answers but suggests possibilities, much like the Museum of the Future, which does not impose a single vision but stimulates questions and reflections.
Dubai is the ideal place for this inquiry: a city where luxury and innovation coexist, but where art is increasingly taking on a central role in defining the new status of cultural capital. Art Money Power fits into this evolution, transforming the concept of art investment into something deeper: an economy of beauty, where money becomes a tool for building rather than destroying.
Carlos Bautista’s works at World Art Dubai 2024 are not just visual statements, but aesthetic prophecies: they suggest that true power does not lie in wealth for its own sake, but in the ability to transform it into something lasting, universal, and shared. In this vision, art becomes the true capital of the future.
Elisa Larese. Art Historian and Art Curator