This reference to Rodin's Les Bourgeois de Calais is modelled from a smartphone photo and printed into a mesh model and covered with compressed, chemically identical lunar dust.
"a series of clicks remake the world"
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Recycled Pieta / Matthew Day Jackson
A modern day fossil, this reference to Michelangelo's Pieta is modelled from a smartphone photo and printed from cement aggregate containing the refuse of New York City.
"a series of clicks remake the world"
Hauser&Wirth
New York
Monday, 2 September 2013
Oldenburg Recycling
Claes Oldenburg
New York
He put together the waste found in East Manhattan streets to create art:
"The city is a landscape well worth enjoying"
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Recycled Sculpture
Changing the context of iconic objects of the urban environment and decoding their scale the artist puts them together into a sculpture-montage, creating a harmonious, fresh, beautiful and joyful feast of art
“don’t be afraid, don’t be sad, you know... I'm here.”
Dwarf Heroes
larger than life iconic comic heroes - the artist herself? - happily lost like dwarves in the vast, colourful and noisy urban fabric
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Pet Art
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Cups, jewellery and home accessories made of recycled PET bottles:
“upcycling” rather than plain recycling:
"karmic compensation”
Sunday, 17 July 2011
God as the Secret Weapon of Recycled Art
The new trash-art is now recycling not only cardboard and bitumen, Bach, Berlioz and Schumann, but God itself.
Bitumen and medieval cloister recycled in
Cardboard, religion and heaven recycled in
God, Nature and Bach all recycled in Terrence Malick's new film
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