Cristian English, un artista argentino, encontró una forma única de expresar su creatividad: transformando billetes en obras de arte. Su técnica consiste en modificar la cara de los personajes históricos que aparecen en los billetes por rostros de figuras contemporáneas como el piloto Franco Colapinto o Lionel Messi.
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00:00Mira, arrancaban de esta manera, de un lado, del otro, pintando.
00:05Un billete de mil con San Martín, ¿no?
00:07Sí, pero ¿a quién tiene ahora?
00:08Mirá.
00:09A Franco Colapinto.
00:10Mirá vos.
00:11Con ese pelo revoltoso.
00:14Increíble cómo transformar la cara de San Martín en la cara de Colapinto.
00:17Y perdió mil mango el tipo, ¿no?
00:19Es muy bueno.
00:20Claro.
00:21No, pero recupera.
00:22Se devaluó.
00:23No, ganó.
00:24Ganó en transformar una obra de arte, ¿no?
00:28Con los caballos se está haciendo el Williams.
00:30Exacto.
00:31Impresionante.
00:32Claro, es verdad.
00:33Y el 43.
00:34Y ahí está modificando y poniendo el 43 en el número de Franco.
00:37Increíble.
00:38Vamos a hablar con el artista, ¿les parece?
00:41Vamos a tratar.
00:42Mirá, mirá.
00:43Ahí hizo el Williams, hizo el 43.
00:45Cristian.
00:47Espectacular.
00:48Primero, felicitarte.
00:49Es fantástico lo que haces y lo que hiciste, pero no sé si lo hiciste vos.
00:53Mirá, si lo que hiciste fue vos, tendrías que tener ese billete en la mano y nos mostrarías
00:57ahora.
00:58A ver.
00:59Ahí está.
01:00Mirá vos.
01:01Mirá vos.
01:02Está divino.
01:03Sos un crack.
01:04La parte de atrás.
01:05Un genio.
01:06Un genio.
01:07¿Hiciste solo uno o hiciste varios?
01:08Tengo un montón de billetes.
01:09Mirá, hay un par que también se...
01:10Muy buenísimo.
01:11Moni.
01:12Moni y Argento.
01:13Los Argentos.
01:14Sí, muy bueno.
01:15A ver con el dedo.
01:16Ese fatiga, el perrito.
01:17Hice este también, mirá.
01:18Lo estaba compartiendo para que lo vea la gente.
01:19Qué grande.
01:20Espectacular.
01:21A ver.
01:22Este.
01:23Estuvo dando vueltas.
01:24Pito.
01:25Pito.
01:26Me encanta.
01:27Charly también.
01:28Viste en el monumento de Rosario, como si fuese un piano.
01:29Espectacular.
01:30¿Y cómo surge esta pasión por dibujar en los billetes y por hacer arte en los billetes?
01:31Sí.
01:32Bueno, el tema de los billetes surgió en el 2020, cuando quedó fuera de circulación
01:33el billete de 5 pesos.
01:34Claro.
01:35La fundación de los billetes, la fundación de los billetes, la fundación de los billetes
01:36fue fundada en el 2020.
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06:19Michael.
06:20Michael.
06:21Michael.
06:22It's Corona.
06:23It's whatsapp this Sunday.
06:24It's wasaptomday.
06:25It's
06:28Michael.
06:29Michael.
06:30Okay.
06:32When do you
06:38like 3D.
06:40Do you, for example, I don't know,
06:42I give you a ticket and I tell you to do, I don't know,
06:44to my uncle.
06:45But it's worth a dollar.
06:46It's worth a dollar.
06:47Do you do that to people who are not known?
06:50Have you asked?
06:51Yes, yes, of course.
06:52Yes, yes.
06:53In fact, once a man came and asked me to paint a $100
06:55ticket for a friend of his.
06:57There it is.
06:58You see?
06:58They have bitcoin.
06:59Tremendous.
06:59They save bitcoin.
07:00Look.
07:01Of course.
07:01Javier, the guy gave you $100 and he wanted you to do it.
07:04It's good.
07:05A wonder.
07:06It's good, yes.
07:06The value of the work matters more than the value of the ticket.
07:10And those are going to stay in the story.
07:12Some that we were just seeing.
07:14It's spectacular what you do, Cristian.
07:16Yes, well, the $2,000 ticket will now be out of circulation,
07:19they told me.
07:19I talked to Ramón Carrillo, son, and he told me.
07:24Yes, and well, in the ticket we did his dad with his mom.
07:27He asked me, he commissioned it.
07:29It was very nice, he has it in his power.
07:31In return, he gave me a book with the story of his dad.
07:33How nice.
07:34Yes, and well, nothing.
07:35I told him, well, at least, let's put it in a positive way.
07:38This is going to be an epic ticket.
07:39It's going to stay in history because it lasted very little
07:40time in circulation.
07:42Of course.
07:42It's true, yes, we have a ticket from Ramón Carrillo, yes.
07:45Yes.
07:46There are very few copies, so it's a collection ticket,
07:49practically.
07:50It's great.
07:51We congratulate you, Cristian.
07:52Thank you for your time too.
07:54There we see one of Charlie, right?
07:56How did you do it?
07:57How did you put it together?
08:00What do you use?
08:01What kind of paint do you use?
08:03Because surely you have to cover what is under the ticket
08:06and that must also cost.
08:07I don't see you making a base in white, right?
08:10It's like you take the ticket as it is.
08:12I use acrylics.
08:13Acrylics.
08:13I use acrylics with a brush.
08:15Of course.
08:16And in the murals I use water-based synthetic.
08:19Water-based synthetic.
08:20Yes, they are very resistant.
08:22They are very good paints.
08:23It's great.
08:24The paint has to resist the passage of time.
08:26Of course.
08:27Because if it doesn't, it loses color.
08:27Look at Messi too.
08:28Yes, Messi and Maria.
08:29We are seeing Messi and Maria.
08:30Spectacular.
08:31Yes.
08:32And then when you deliver it, do you deliver the ticket like this alone
08:35or does it go in a box or does it go in some way?
08:36I deliver it framed.
08:38Framed.
08:39In the end I put a frame digitally like this,
08:43but I frame the ticket.
08:45Frame.
08:45And front and back painters,
08:48which are actually two different tickets,
08:49the ones you use, surely.
08:50So as not to waste the back of one.
08:52Of course.
08:52Right?
08:53Of course, yes, because if it goes wrong,
08:55at least I have the possibility of doing it again.
09:00It's great.
09:01Let's see here, which one did you like the most?
09:02Gabi?
09:03Gabi?
09:03No, Colapinto's is extraordinary for me.
09:05Yes.
09:06It's extraordinary.
09:07Messi and Maria's is also very good.
09:08I also liked the debut one,
09:10Charlie's too.
09:11It's the expression, right?
09:12It's the Colapinto, Colapinto that we see in any image.
09:15Fito's is great.
09:16I'm going to upload this one now.
09:18Let's see.
09:18I love Guns N' Roses.
09:19Slash.
09:20Guns N' Roses.
09:20Slash and Axl Rose.
09:23In the back I did the cover of You See The Illusion
09:28and I mixed it.
09:29Yes.
09:29The one and the two.
09:30You See The Illusion, one and two.
09:32It's true.
09:33There you have them, the two covers.
09:34I love it.
09:35Did you also take the opportunity to put an artist
09:37to come to Argentina to do something?
09:40I mean, it's the sense of opportunity.
09:42It's just that those kinds of things are the ones that
09:44generate the most interaction.
09:45Because it's like people are talking about it.
09:47So it's like joining the conversation in some way.
09:49Or if it's a pole.
09:50Pinocole.
09:51Kylie Minogue is coming soon.
09:53Of course, having moments.
09:54Are there any Argentine artists?
09:55Duki, Emilia, Tini, Maria.
09:58Any more?
09:59Lali.
10:00Lali.
10:01Yes.
10:01I work a lot on demand.
10:03So sometimes I have a lot of work, luckily.
10:05And I can't really do things for the networks.
10:07But lately I'm trying to invest a little more time.
10:09That's why they said before that I don't have that many followers.
10:12And how did you come up with this idea?
10:13One day you were printing a ticket and you got a drawing.
10:17And so you started doing one and the other?
10:20Yes, it was because of the call they made at the national level.
10:23I painted nine to participate.
10:25Milo Locke, Maxi Bañasco, even Gaturro was there.
10:29We were 1,000 people.
10:30And I stayed painting because they started buying me the tickets.
10:33They started calling me on the phone or sending me emails,
10:37messages on Instagram, asking me to paint their mom, their aunt, Messi.
10:41When do they ask you, or if they make you an order,
10:45for a birthday, a gift,
10:47I mean, special gifts for that person?
10:50In what situations have you found that they have asked you?
10:54Yes, yes, a lot to give away.
10:57And also a lot of aneurysm, a lot of ticket collectors
11:00who want to have a ticket painted as part of their ticket collection.
11:03Yes, but seriously, are they very expensive?
11:07No, well, I try to have a value that works for me and the client.
11:13It also depends on the number of orders I have.
11:15Sometimes I charge cheaper, sometimes more expensive.
11:17It depends on the amount of work, because if not,
11:20it's a bit stressful to have a lot of people waiting.
11:25I've had long waiting lists that I had to close a bit because...
11:30Of course, it depends on the demand.
11:31Wait, I want to sum it up.
11:33Now I'm making a mural of Maradona, Messi, El Chivo.
11:36You're not going to tell me how much you charge?
11:38No, there's no fixed value.
11:40There's no fixed value, why?
11:42Because it's a thermometer, let's say.
11:44I'm putting the value according to the amount of work I have,
11:47because it's the only way I have to regulate the amount of pending tasks.
11:53Of course, according to the amount of work.
11:55The offer and the demand regulates the market.
11:58Who wouldn't do it, Cristian?
11:59Who would you say, no, I won't do this one?
12:02Well, there's a blacklist of characters that you can't even name.
12:08It has to do with the world of...
12:09But no, the thing is the murals.
12:11Now I'm making a huge mural of Messi, Di Maria, El Chivo...
12:16Where?
12:17Maradona, and that's about 23 meters wide by 3 meters high.
12:21Where?
12:22I get a lot of money in the middle, cheap, I can't do anything.
12:26Of course, it makes sense.
12:28Where is the mural? Where are we going to see the mural?
12:30Because here we are in Palermo, and here we have
12:33a mural of Dibu very close,
12:35a mural of Escalón, and at that moment of emotion,
12:37we have the cover of Dibu...
12:39And there's a mural of me too, the mural of Badia,
12:41in Támez and Córdoba, I painted that one.
12:43We did it with Seba Andriata and Jasmín Badia.
12:46Good, good.
12:47Between you and Maxi Bañasco, the city of murals is divided, more or less.
12:50Maxi has done a lot, he has done a lot.
12:52Yes, I live in Chubut anyway.
12:54Ah, that's very good, very good.
12:56Well, and where is this mural that you told us going to be?
12:58It's here in my city, in Comodoro Rivadavia,
13:00near the airport.
13:02Yes, now a little while ago I finished one of a lighthouse,
13:05which is from here, the lighthouse here in Comodoro,
13:08and I painted a couple of foxes there with the characteristic landscape of the city.
13:12I love murals, every time I see a mural,
13:14I have to take a picture.
13:15Well, we have...
13:16Especially if it's a mural of Diego, boom.
13:17We have the one of Diego there on Avenida San Juan,
13:20which is from the highway, which is to...
13:22To celebrate.
13:23Just like that.
13:25Yes, well, I had one that was very well located,
13:27now it no longer exists,
13:29of the Secret of His Eyes in Torrego de Castillo.
13:31Good.
13:32And there was just the one of Esperando la Carrosa, too.
13:35Oh, I love it.
13:37Yes, and then I made one of Sandro, the one from the movie Gitano.
13:40And then I also painted this painting on a mural
13:43on the avenue Rivadavia,
13:45in the bookstores of Primera Junta,
13:47but that no longer exists.
13:48The one of Esperando la Carrosa, which is in Chubut?
13:51What?
13:52The one of Esperando la Carrosa, where is it?
13:54That's all in Buenos Aires, what I'm naming.
13:56Look.
13:57Ah, then you tell me where it is.
13:58The one of Esperando la Carrosa is in a block of the Secret of His Eyes,
14:01there in Carranza, at 2200 I think it is.
14:06And the one of Primera Junta, there in front of the Mercado del Progreso,
14:08there in the corner where the subway stop is,
14:11there is the newspaper and magazine kiosk, around there, right?
14:13Yes, yes, yes.
14:14They no longer exist anyway,
14:15because this was eight years ago,
14:17when we painted it, we were several muralists.
14:19Sure.
14:20Yes, just like one from Dolina,
14:21on the avenue Rivadavia,
14:22just where the mural of Lancel Gris is.
14:24Yes.
14:25But well, that one also,
14:26it lasted a short time, unfortunately.
14:27Well.
14:28But there is a video on YouTube, you can see it.
14:29Sure.
14:30You can see how I painted it, and well.
14:31The works will remain in the memory
14:33of those who were able to enjoy it at that time,
14:35the tickets will remain in the hands of those who commissioned it,
14:37or of Cristian himself.
14:39Thank you very much, Cristian, for this time,
14:41for this spectacular moment that you do.
14:43And well, if you want to see it,
14:45on his Instagram he has those spectacular videos
14:47that we are seeing with different figures
14:49of popular culture.
14:50Thank you, Cristian.
14:52Thank you all very much,
14:53and a greeting to the whole audience.
14:55Please.
14:56And the last figure that arrived
14:58was that of Franco Corapinto.
15:00We just saw it on the bill,
15:01it is one of the last that he did,
15:03on the bill of 1,000 pesos.