Alliance Française de Bombay in collaboration with National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai invites you to the opening of Beyond Face Value: French Banknote Designs from Around the World, curated by Ms. Rukmini Dahanukar, a renowned researcher and collector of banknotes.

3 April
6:00 PM
NGMA, Mumbai

French banknotes from around the world exhume art, romanticism and flair, a combination that results in these beautiful banknote artworks worth far beyond their face value.

In France, the French francs have already been replaced by the Euro, over 20 years ago. It is time to take a look at one of the most beautiful monetary galleries from around the world to appreciate the contribution of the real wealth and value of exchange.

The exhibition presents large size banknote replicas on canvas with real size prints of the banknotes including information as well as an artistic and symbolic explanation of the banknote imagery.

Banknotes have always attracted economic attention (for obvious reasons) and the rich socio-cultural, political, artistic and symbolic values have gone unnoticed during exchange. This exhibition aims to address that banknotes are not merely mediums of exchange but mediums of communication.