Video: Pop idols on coins: a fun project by designer Andre Levy
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who among us has not brought coins from distant countries as souvenirs? Usually, upon arrival, we postpone them until better times on the back burner, but Andre Levy, a Brazilian designer now based in Frankfurt, does things differently. He paints the little thing left after the road, “transforming” the presidents and monarchs depicted on the coins into pop culture idols.
Artists are creative people, and therefore their attitude to money is special. Few people will covet the nominal value of coins, but many are happy to use the contents of their own piggy bank as material to create real masterpieces. So, the British artist Adrian Firth became famous for "painting" gorgeous one-penny portraits, and the American Wander Martich created a "penny" portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Andre Levy's project was named "Tales You Lose". Many foreign coins have accumulated in the artist's collection, and he decided to slightly modify their usual design. Now, instead of the top officials of the states, famous cartoon characters flaunt on them. Catwoman and Wolverine, Cinderella and Ronald McDonald - you can find anyone here.
The designer himself is happy to comment on his project, noting that such transformations significantly increase the value of the coins. André Levy reminds us that the usual coins are nothing more than massively replicated mini-bas-reliefs. Faced with money every day, we don’t think about it. In the hands of the artist, ordinary pennies become unique, and Andre Levy himself ponders whether we are able to value a cent more expensive just because it depicts a pop idol instead of the usual portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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