Video: The Mendicant - a cube made of cents
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The United States of America has many symbols - the Stars and Stripes flag, the Statue of Liberty, Hollywood and many others. But the artist Robert Wechsler believes that the main symbol of this country is dollar! In support of this belief, he created a series of works with the general title The mendicant.
Recently, more and more often you can see works of modern art created from quite real money, including American cents. Examples of this statement include "penny" paintings by Jacqueline Lou Skaggs, art furniture made of coins by designer Johnny Swing, a one million dollar installation Penny Harvest Field or The Mendicant cube, created recently. by artist Robert Wexler.
The Mendicant installation consists of three cubes of different sizes, created entirely from one cent coins. In total, the artist spent several hundred American dollars to create these works, while he spent 26,982 cents on the construction of the largest of the described cubes.
As a result, he got a very unusual symbol of the modern United States of America, fully revealing, according to Robert Wexler, the whole essence of this state and its inhabitants.
Wexler claims that his works from The Mendicant series are as symbolic of America as the Statue of Liberty, or even more modern. After all, the statue shows the already practically outdated desire of Americans for freedom, and its cubes of one-cent coins perfectly illustrate the modern pursuit of money, which has replaced the national idea for the inhabitants of this country.
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