Inflation has caused Argentinian artist Sergio Guillermo Diaz to create an unusual kind of art. He paints on money and sells it.
通货膨胀使阿根廷艺术家塞尔吉奥·吉列尔莫·迪亚兹(Sergio Guillermo Diaz)创作了一种不寻常的艺术。
With yearly inflation that likely neared 100 percent last year, Argentina's 1,000-peso bill is worth around $5.60 officially and only $3.00 on private markets.
由于去年的年通货膨胀率可能接近100%，阿根廷1000比索的官方价值约为5.60美元，而在私人市场上仅为3.00美元。
Diaz, in a talk with Reuters in the northern city of Salta, said, "... it makes sense for me to paint on the largest denominated bill here in Argentina. Once I paint on it, I can sell it for much more than what the bill is worth."
迪亚兹在北部城市萨尔塔接受路透社采访时表示，“……我在阿根廷最大的面值纸币上作画是有意义的。因为一旦我在上面作画，我就可以以比纸币价值高得多的价格卖出它。”
He says he includes ideas about inflation and the peso's loss of value into his works, which also feature the U.S. one-dollar bill.
他说，他将通货膨胀和比索贬值的想法融入了自己的作品中，也包括美国一美元纸币。
On the money, he has painted pictures such as soccer star Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup. He has also created images about the peso's loss of value in recent years - a change that has helped pull 40 percent of the country's population into poverty.
在这些纸币上，他画了足球明星莱昂内尔·梅西(Lionel Messi)举起世界杯的照片。他还创造了近年来比索贬值的图像——比索贬值使该国40%的人口陷入贫困。
Diaz said his work shows "how inflation is lived, how this is growing, which ultimately affects us all, totally affects our lives and our purchasing power, how we are living through this crisis."
迪亚兹表示，他的作品展示了“通货膨胀是如何形成，如何增长，以及最终影响到我们所有人，完全影响到我们的生活和购买力，以及我们如何度过这场危机。”
I'm John Russell.
约翰·拉塞尔报道。
Inflation has caused Argentinian artist Sergio Guillermo Diaz to create an unusual kind of art. He paints on money and sells it.
With yearly inflation that likely neared 100 percent last year, Argentina's 1,000-peso bill is worth around $5.60 officially and only $3.00 on private markets.
Diaz, in a talk with Reuters in the northern city of Salta, said, "... it makes sense for me to paint on the largest denominated bill here in Argentina. Once I paint on it, I can sell it for much more than what the bill is worth."
He says he includes ideas about inflation and the peso's loss of value into his works, which also feature the U.S. one-dollar bill.
On the money, he has painted pictures such as soccer star Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup. He has also created images about the peso's loss of value in recent years - a change that has helped pull 40 percent of the country's population into poverty.
Diaz said his work shows "how inflation is lived, how this is growing, which ultimately affects us all, totally affects our lives and our purchasing power, how we are living through this crisis."
I'm John Russell.
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denominate - v. to be expressed in an exact kind of monetary unit (said of sums of money)
ultimately - adv. at the most basic level : in the central or most important way
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