CD Collage by Mirco Pagano & Moreno De Turco

Italian artists Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco, have created collages of musicians using CD covers released by each singer called “Piracy” to highlight the damage caused by music piracy.

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Bob Marley

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Freddie Mercury

"After picking our musicians, we found their most memorable image."

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Jimi Hendrix

"We looked through their original CD covers and made a rough composition before printing enough copies of each CD cover onto blank discs."

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Elvis

"Then we composed each portrait on the floor and took these pictures of them."

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The duo even made a video of pop king Michael Jackson using 1,100 of his CDs to make him move.

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"We worked for 200 hours over three months to finish the collection."

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James Brown

"We are music lovers and wanted to do something memorable against music piracy."

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Jim Morrison

"Piracy, like a virus, infects and destroys the music from the inside and prevents the artists from succeeding and become idols like they did in the past. Our copies represent the pirate CD and we hope it makes people take notice."