Artist Depicts World Leaders Doing Their Duty On Another Kind Of Throne

We see their faces on TV, read about them in the news almost every day, and hold on to faith that they won’t launch a nuclear attack while we sleep. “They” are our world leaders, who wield so much power that we sometimes forget that they’re just people too.

Italy-based artist Cristina Guggeri provides an unforgettable reminder of just that in her series of images entitled Il Dovere Quotidiano, or “The Daily Duty,” which depict the world’s most powerful figures doing their “business” on another kind of throne.

These illustrations are all over the Interwebz, and the public opinion is divided among those who think they’re humorous and playful, and those who take offense and think the photos are vulgar. Check them out and decide for yourself:

1. United States President Barack Obama

“The artistic idea comes from the fact of having to get everyone on the same level,” Cristina Guggeri said in an interview.

2. Queen Elizabeth II of England

”We do our daily duties in the same way. We sit on our ‘Throne’ in silence, only with ourselves”

3. Russian President Vladimir Putin

“The choice to capture personalities in their daily duty is not only the externalization of a idea shared by all, but implies another kind of message: the powerful, being personalities of public importance, should not only perform their physiological duty, but they should realize what ordinary people (who elected them) expect from them: their ‘daily duty’”

4. Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel

“People have reacted with a sense of humor. They enjoy the idea that even the powerful of the earth can do their physiological duties [just like everyone else]”

5. The Vatican’s Pope Francis

“The digital photomontage offers different artistic possibilities. It takes a lot of patience to make one work and assemble various pieces of photographs to create a totally new one”

6. Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

“The works are made with digital art, with a popular graphics program. They are montages of different pictures, even [the] small parts”

7. Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank

“It takes a lot of patience, artistic sensibility and a good dose of humor [to create]“

8. The Dalai Lama

“The project is still in the works, and soon will have another collection of great personalities”

9. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu

This photo series does a great job of demystifying world leaders by rather hilariously pointing out that, just like the rest of us, they are people too.

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