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Artist creates 'Latin American Mona Lisa' with plastic bottle caps
Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares used over 100,000 recycled bottle caps to create a 13-meter mural, promoting recycling and community involvement in a former gang-controlled area.
- In San Salvador, Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares installed a 13-meter tall installation using a rainbow of caps, inspired by da Vinci and Signac, in Zacamil’s neighborhood.
- Residents collected, washed and sorted donated bottle caps over several months, then neighbors completed the mural assembly in three weeks.
- Drawing on da Vinci and Signac, Olivares reimagined the palette to depict a Latina woman with black hair, colorful dress, and jewelry at 13 meters tall, using pointillist caps.
- The artist framed the work as transformative, noting it impacts viewers and shifts art's meaning away from gang graffiti, emphasizing community and environmental themes.
- Olivares described the work as a Latin American take on a global motif, framing it as part of a 'new Renaissance' and noting he has used over 2 million caps in more than two dozen murals, AFP reported.
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A "Mona Lisa" as a symbol for recycling: artwork made from 100,000 bottle covers by Oscar Olivares
Inspired by ‘La Gioconda’, one of the most famous works in the world by the Italian Leonardo da Vinci, the Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares produced a mural with more than 100,000 plastic covers of recycled colors in a populous area of El Salvador as a tribute to the Salvadoran and Latin American women. The ecological mural is located in a multifamily building of the historic Colonia Zacamil, in San Salvador. An area of more than 50 years old, s…
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