From waste to wonder: Venezuelan artist unveils 13-metre bottle cap mural in El Salvador - Video
A Venezuelan artist has transformed more than 100,000 recycled bottle caps into what he describes as the world’s tallest cap mural, unveiled in a neighbourhood of San Salvador.
The 13-metre artwork, titled The Salvadoran Gioconda, portrays the face of a woman with Latin features and was created by Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares with the support of local recyclers and residents. The caps were collected by El Salvador’s National Association of Recyclers and community members, turning discarded plastic into a large-scale public installation. Olivares said the project marked a milestone in the development of his signature technique, pushing it to a new level of scale and complexity. The piece is the 46th in his career, during which he has repurposed nearly two million plastic caps for works exhibited across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
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