Juan Carlos Pinto's MetroCard Mona Lisa is now on display in DUMBO.
Take a look at this baby. It is a Mona Lisa MetroCard by artist Juan Carlos Pinto. The Guatemala-born artist has been working in New York City for the past ten years, and he uses non-biodegradable plastic objects as his medium. He slices, dices and pastes them to create visual images.
“The idea of using these non-biodegradable cards is to reinforce recycling and prolonging its use indefinitely while providing the artist with a source free material. It is also a way of reminding us about the danger this material can cause if left to seep into the earth,” he says on his website.
Pinto’s work is currently on display at the DIS Micro Gallery at 147 Front Street in Brooklyn. Always a sucker for a good “Mona Lisa,” I like MetroCard Che as well. Viva la fare hike revolucion.
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This was in the window of Vox Pop, the now-defunct coffee shop on Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park. I always thought it was rather silly. Che Guevara as a symbol of resistance to… higher subway fares?
(I’m referring to the artist’s Che portrait, linked in the post above. I actually think his technique is great, and I like the Mona Lisa quite a bit.)