Portrait Serie · Mixed Media Sculpture
Julio Jaramillo — 1 Sucre
A tribute to Ecuador’s most enduring popular voice, transformed into a sculptural banknote that carries music, memory and migration.
Serie de Arte · Nueva York · 2026
Ecuador
Nostalgia
Memoria, migración y cultura popular transformadas en interpretaciones escultóricas de la antigua moneda del Ecuador.
La Colección
Memorias impresas.
The sucre once passed from hand to hand as part of ordinary life. In this collection, it returns as an object of memory.
Inglés
Ecuador Nostalgia reinterprets the visual language of historic banknotes as contemporary sculptural works. Faces, symbols and denominations become vessels for personal and collective memory—connecting Ecuadorians at home and abroad with places, voices and cultural references that remain familiar long after migration.
Español
Ecuador Nostalgia reinterpreta antiguos billetes como obras escultóricas contemporáneas. Rostros, símbolos y denominaciones se convierten en recipientes de memoria personal y colectiva, conectando a los ecuatorianos dentro y fuera del país con lugares, voces y referentes culturales que permanecen vivos después de migrar.
Texto Curatorial
There are objects that disappear from everyday life but never disappear from memory.
For Ecuadorians, the sucre was more than currency. It passed through millions of hands, accompanied childhoods, family businesses, music, celebrations and ordinary life. It became part of a shared visual identity.
Ecuador Nostalgia transforms those forgotten banknotes into large-scale sculptural artworks, preserving not their economic value, but their emotional value. Every work begins with a historic denomination and evolves into a new visual narrative where music, art, popular culture, humor, migration and personal memory converge.
This collection is not about money. It is about remembering.
— Iván Orquera
Índice de la Colección
Cuatro obras. Cuatro fragmentos de memoria.
Obra Destacada
Julio Jaramillo — 1 Sucre
The voice of Julio Jaramillo remains woven into Ecuadorian family life, migration and popular memory. Reimagined through the visual language of the sucre, this work transforms a familiar cultural figure into a sculptural object of remembrance.
Obra original2026Mixed media sculptureAtelier OrqueraInstalación de gran formatoNueva York
Reverso
Memoria Arquitectónica
The reverse preserves the architectural engraving and graphic language of Ecuadorian currency, reinforcing the dialogue between cultural identity, place and memory.
Artwork: Julio Jaramillo — 1 Sucre
Vista posterior
Mixed media sculpture
2026
El Proceso
De moneda a obra de arte.
01Investigación Histórica
02Concepto
03Reconstrucción Digital
04Composición
05Producción de Gran Formato
06Ensamblaje Escultórico
07Exhibición
Proyectos Seleccionados
La moneda de la memoria.
Portrait Serie · Mixed Media Sculpture
Julio Jaramillo — 10 Sucres
The familiar language of historic currency becomes a physical portrait of collective remembrance.
Art & Identity Serie · Mixed Media Sculpture
Oswaldo Guayasamín — 10,000 Sucres
A dialogue between Ecuadorian currency and one of the country’s most powerful artistic legacies.
Popular Memory Serie · Mixed Media Sculpture
El Miche — 5 Sucres
Popular humor and cultural memory enter the formal visual system of a national banknote.
Artist Statement
These works are not reproductions of money. They are portraits of memory.
By enlarging, reshaping and recontextualizing the visual language of Ecuadorian banknotes, the series asks what remains after a currency disappears. The answer is not economic value, but emotional value: family stories, migration, music, politics, humor, identity and the small objects through which a country remembers itself.
Collector Information
Acquire the work.
Seleccionado works from Ecuador Nostalgia are available for private collections, cultural institutions, exhibitions and commissioned projects.
Original mixed-media works
Museum-quality limited editions
Privado commissions
Institutional and cultural exhibitions
International shipping by arrangement
Audio Stories
Listen to the story behind each bill.
Short audio narratives by Iván Orquera will accompany individual artworks, sharing the memories, cultural references and personal stories that inspired each piece.
Próximamente.
Exposiciones
Una historia pública en evolución.
2025
Las primeras ideas y estudios for Ecuador Nostalgia comienzan.
2026
The sculptural currency series se desarrolla y produce en Nueva York.
August 2026
Primera presentación pública de la colección en Queens, Nueva York.
Siguiente
Nuevas obras, futuras exposiciones and presentaciones institucionales.
Colecciones Futuras
El archivo continúa creciendo.
Serie de Periódicos
Público memory through headlines, print culture and historic events.
Portadas de Revistas
Popular culture, identity and the visual history of everyday Ecuador.
Objetos de Memoria
Ordinary objects transformed into contemporary cultural artifacts.
Libro de Visitantes
Deja tu memoria.
Your response can become part of the evolving archive of Ecuador Nostalgia.
Visitor submissions will be activated when the website form service is connected.
El arte preserva lo que la memoria se niega a olvidar.
Iván Orquera
Atelier Orquera Arte
Carry the story beyond the exhibition.
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