· The earlier items in this series have already been displayed in the company of coins and medals showing that Szlávics feels them to be close to that genre. These works are part of his intention to systematically stretch or dissolve the limits of the genre, departing as far as possible from its formal conventions. Recently, they have bean defined as marginal coins or medals, with the claim that any organic element of nature or any objet trouve as in the present case - could serve as coins. Ritual ancient money can only be included under the heading of coins because of its function - as its genre is almost indefinable. Such objects composed of things once used in barter only make us think of coins, and hence of the medals which grew out of them, because of one of their social functions. This line of thought, in turn, leads us on to treat them as such; what is more, to think of them as somehow linked to traditional coins or medals.
· It is not only their genre that is hard to define; their appearance too defies inclusion in any current trend or fashion. Their closest link is with the avant-garde which reappears from time to time.
· Amerindian coins made in 1993 serve as precedents within Szlávics's oeuvre. Brass and iron pieces struck in various sizes are objects close to real coins that make us think of what we accept as small change in our own lives. In later works some of their characteristics are even