The Currency

LITERATURE ABOUT THE SERIE "Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes" In the series Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes, Kumikaho Oshima co...

A rare opportunity to acquire an early and visually powerful example of one of the world’s most iconic and conceptually fascinating currencies—where value resides not in exchange but...

LITERATURE ABOUT THE SERIE "Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes" In the series Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes, Kumikaho Oshima co...

The refined, highly detailed currency engraving—associated with stability and economic power—is confronted by the raw immediacy of street art, a form often linked to protest, express...

The interplay of textures—crumpled paper currency against smooth synthetic surfaces—enhances the tactile dimension of the work, inviting closer observation.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.

The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art.

This hue amplifies the contrast between the doll’s smooth, idealized features and the restless visual rhythm of layered currency, suggesting a fragile equilibrium between innocence a...

The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art.

LITERATURE ABOUT THE SERIE "Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes" In the series Luminous Transactions : Barbie Chronicles in Currency Boxes, Kumikaho Oshima co...

The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art.

The composition evokes the image of a symbolic fountain in which currency flows endlessly, suggesting both abundance and the illusion of perpetual prosperity.

Within the broader context of the series, Oshima frequently juxtaposes Barbie figures with monetary imagery; in Neon Capital, however, the emphasis on currency alone allows the chrom...

Part of the artist’s ongoing Currencies series, encompassing over 200 original pieces, Currency #265 transforms the familiar form of the coin into a site of poetic reflection.

Part of Lelenco’s ongoing Currencies series, encompassing over 200 original works, Currency #266 transforms the coin into a metaphor for belonging and value.

The gesture of the repetition of small elements and the time invested in doing so is used as a tool to give “value” to the images that are constructed. From the series Currency Gicl...

The money clip elegantly holds currency notes in place whilst in a trouser or suit pocket.

Large collar with pointed flaps and buttoning crossed by six gold metal buttons imitating the Roman currency with an effigy of Emperors. Long sleeves adorned with three buttons as a ...

I choose the best materials available to make the art pieces, including blown glass from Murano, Italy and the most important global currencies and noble metals available in differen...

Historical Context: The Histamenon was a gold coin introduced by Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas in the 10th century, and it became a standard currency in the Byzantine Empire. By the t...

The gesture of the repetition of small elements and the time invested in doing so is used as a tool to give “value” to the images that are constructed. From the series Currency Gicl...

After the second world war Ligna was established as a state foreign trade organisation for producing and exporting mainly wood-related products to manage exports and generate hard cu...

The genre of the trompe l'oeil featuring scattered papers and documents has a long tradition in European painting, but acquires particular resonance when the subject consists of Fren...

I choose the best materials available to make the art pieces, including blown glass from Murano, Italy and the most important global currencies and noble metals available in differen...

In Oshima’s compositions, currency operates as a silent language of measurement, reminding viewers that personal worth is often evaluated through external standards.

This particular yellow gold postage money clip was inspired by a Tiffany design from 1957, the designs starting from the iconic Tiffany Blue Book Signed 'Tiffany & Co' Au 750 to its...

This tiara is instantly recognisable from certain issues of stamps and currency around the Commonwealth. The Great Hall unveiling.

Across her neck, "United States of America," is emblazoned in the font used in American currency. Beneath the figure is the phrase "reigning capital either nourishes the majority wit...

Part of the artist’s ongoing Currencies series, which now comprises over 200 original works, Currency #263 replaces the authority of the coin with the intimacy of individual experien...

Designed for modular display, Currency #262 can be installed as a single collectible wall piece or combined with others to form larger compositions.

Minted in 1898 during the height of Imperial Russia, each coin represents authentic currency from the Romanov dynasty's final decades.

"Bitcoin" is a bold tangle of fire-orange, gold, and obsidian strokes, capturing the volatility and energy of the digital currency it’s named after. The painting moves like a marketp...

In Salinas de Ibarra, a region in the north of Ecuador, the salt was filtered from the ground and pressed into currency units. ÍCONOS is a creative and ethnographic exploration of t...

This contemporary circular portrait painting by Natasha Lelenco belongs to the early series of Currencies, a project that reimagines the traditional coin as a symbolic portrait.

In many tropical cultures, tribal communities used them as currency. The Inca would bury shells with the dead as part of funerary rites.

The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art.

It was increasingly fashionable, and a form of social currency from the seventeenth century onwards, for the Black servant in the British aristocratic home to be shown in portraits.

In the American West, turquoise was traded as currency among the Pueblo Indians. In Native American lore, blue turquoise is referred to as the Sky Stone, representing the eternal hea...

A pink square composed of motifs from certificates and currency sits in the center of the composition and reads "Stiletto Dreams."

Underneath the title is the phrase "fools proof," and below the head "SCENE PAST THE STATE OF YOUR BORROWED 'CURRENCY' (the promise of disinformation): YOUR CREDIT FUTURE OF "DOING Y...