(via Savvy Miniaturist Mints Pop Culture Portraits on Coins)
Talk about cultural currency! The Sao Paulo–born, Frankfurt-based artist and designer Andre Levy has earned himself a huge online following and an exhibition at Stew Gallery in Norwich, England with his project Tales You Lose, for which he turns the portraits of monarchs and political heroes adorning coins into images of pop culture icons including transforming the image of Franco on a Spanish coin into Divine, turning an Olympian on a Greek coin into the Flash, and remaking a Chinese coin into miniature version of René Magritte’s “The Son of Man.”
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