Central to the series BANKNOTES from Jaap Drupsteen he made between 1994 and 1999 is that he expresses the technology that comes with the manufacture of them. It was the first time that the bank did not prescribe a particular iconography. Drupsteen wanted the banknote to communicate in its entirety and not just the ‘picture’ on it. “The number of blocks on the front and back of each banknote is just as much as its value in guilders. The public can already recognize the value of the banknote on a small part of the surface, on the structure and size of the blocks.”
