Vin Mariani o Coca Cola Retro, 2015

Miami Beach 2015
Vin Mariani o Coca Cola Retro

Instituto de visión

Sculpture
wooden shelf, glass bottles, coca leaves, Bordeaux wine
65.0 x 60.0 x 20.0 (cm)
25.6 x 23.6 x 7.9 (inch)
Vin Mariani o Coca Cola retro is a basic reconstruction of Vin Mariani, a drink made of Bordeaux wine and coca leaves that became popular at the end of the XIX century and that constitute the direct antecedent of the Coca-Cola recipe. This work investigates the moment prior to the drug penalization, before certain substances were categorized as illegal, as wine or cocaine. The piece is constituted of three glass bottles, one with coca leaves, another one with wine and the third one with the mixture of both. Vin Mariani o Coca Cola retro is also an exercise of cultural syncretism as wine and coca were funda- mental elements of antiques civilization such as the Roman and the Inca.