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The E-Sylum: Volume 24, Number 46, November 14, 2021, Article 27

VENEZUELAN ARTIST PAINTS OLD BANKNOTES

Artists and craftsmen often repurpose obsolete banknotes, especially in nations hard-hit with hyperinflation. Here's a new story about an artist in Venezuela making use of the country's worthless banknotes. -Editor

  Venezuela artist Di Gregorio painting banknotes

Venezuelan artist and medical student Elianni Di Gregorio is using old bolivar notes as canvas for her paintings as she strives to give them new value after rampant hyper inflation and successive overhauls saw them discarded.

Di Gregorio, 24, decided to paint on bolivar notes thrown away in the trash to restore some of the currency's former glory.

Three monetary overhauls since 2008 have cut up to 14 zeros from the currency, pushing vast quantities of notes out of circulation. The most recent overhaul took place in October, when Venezuela's central bank wiped six zeros from the bolivar.

  Venezuela artist Di Gregorio Mona Lisa note

"I could see how they were throwing incredible amounts of paper money in the trash, which affected me greatly, which is why I decided to reuse them for a different purpose and began to paint on them," said Di Gregorio, who has used the banknotes as her main canvas since 2017.

In one of her paintings Di Gregorio used a pink 20-bolivar note to reproduce La Fornarina, which depicts a semi-nude woman in one of renaissance artist Raphael's most important works.

  Venezuela artist Di Gregorio painted banknotes

To read the complete article, see:
Venezuelan artist brings new value to discarded banknotes (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-lifestyle/venezuelan-artist-brings-new-value-discarded-banknotes-2310101)

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