"Bulgarian-born artist Houben RT drives a truth straight onto the canvas with ferocity, elegance, and unnerving precision. Without question, this current moment has a single ruling element. The essential element of modern society is money. Certainly, greed fuels the engine, though in the end, it is currency that has come to define perceived worth, status, and legitimacy. Houben's paintings do not observe this system. They expose it."
"Born in Kardzhali, classically trained at the National Academy of Art in Sofia, and forged in the radical experimental atmosphere orbiting the XXL circle, Houben carries both old-world rigor and conceptual firepower. His early performances and video interventions dissected post-communist transition, institutional decay, and imported spectacle with biting satire. In 2000, upon his arrival in New York, the vision crystallized."
Houben RT, born in Kardzhali and trained at Sofia's National Academy of Art, blends classical rigor with conceptual experimentalism. Early performances and video interventions dissected post-communist transition, institutional decay, and imported spectacle. Upon arriving in New York in 2000, he focused on finance as the primary cultural engine. His paintings act as post-Pop indictments that confront monetary theology rather than celebrate consumer appetite. Compositions read like contemporary vanitas, replacing skulls with treasury seals, numerals, and sovereign faces. He reverses banknote reproducibility by reasserting singular authorship through techniques such as heat transfer and metallic processes, exposing valuation as the boundary of identity.
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