The truth is that this has inspired us a lot and has led us to think. In Natura We defend the right to second opportunities, so why weren't the waste we generate?
We humans individually produce about 1 kg of waste throughout a day! Yes, yes, you too. With this fact you can surely get an idea of the impact that our consumption has on the planet globally. We have no excuses: in our hands is the opportunity to have gestures to reduce pollution and exploitation of resources. Imagine everything you throw in the trash and the little route that these objects have had since their manufacture to the end of the container.
In spite of this, there are many who try to raise awareness and contribute granite. Each one does it in their own way, but investigating we have met a paradox: art from garbage, beauty that comes out of our waste. There are creators who revive abandoned objects and make them plastic and visual wonders. Today we wanted to share with you a tour of different artists who have made recycling the basis of their work. Here we go!
Yuken Teruya
This creator of Japanese origin bases his work on the use of everyday materials such as toilet paper and paper bags, in addition to other natural elements such as chrysálidas of butterflies, always inspired by the life of his homeland, Okinawa.
Notice-Forest (What Victory Tasttes Like), 2012
Gerhard Bar
This German designer has been creating objects of art and daily use from plastic garbage for more than 20 years. In his work converge aesthetics, ecology and social responsibility.
Beata and Gerhard Bär Stuhl Recycling, 1990–1999
Martha Hoversham
Martha Hoversham finds small objects on the street and recycles them to use them in their collages. His classic ballet training permeates all his work, whether visual or performative. Her pockets are always full of what most people consider trash and that, however, for her they are treasures, since she ends up becoming part of her works and catalogs of haute couture. In his project "Found Fashion " Skirts made with dried leaves pcs of bird feathers in the headdresses.
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Miquel Appear
Miquel Apartici (Barcelona, 1963) undertook an artistic adventure in the late 90s: converting their drawings into beings into three dimensions, using utensils of former artisan trades, as well as molds and wood and metal disuse objects, through the technique of " Assemblage ". Since then it has developed more than 350 pieces, which represent all kinds of animals in different shapes and measures, from a natural size elephant to small insects.
Rinoceros, 2016
Alejandro Durán
This artist elaborates disturbing compositions on the ground with the waste he finds in nature, making the spectator complicit in the waste without control. Its facilities, as he says, reflect the reality of our current environmental situation. Its resulting photographic series represent a new form of colonization for consumerism, where even the unvotable land (such as virgin beaches) is not safe from the long -range impact of our culture of disposable products.
Waste no more
In 2009, the firm Eileen Fisher It began a garment collection program that was part of a circular system designed with the intention of providing discarded clothing. Since the program began, more than 1.2 million garments have been collected and converted into material for the artistic project that is hidden under the name of ‘Waste no More’. Users just have to send their garments so that the design study located in New York and led by Sigi Ahl, gets to work to create all kinds of artistic pieces, from cushions to wall pendants from materials from the materials received.
Neptune Wallwork
Barry Rosenthal
Barry Rosenthal's career was completed with his most social project committed to the environment, “Found in Nature” which began by chance in 2007. He was surrounded by garbage, when he was looking for plants on the beach; He ordered some of those waste and suddenly found a strange beauty in them. Since then this artist is dedicated in body and soul to this thematic series, which every day has more followers worldwide. His goal is that we become aware of the global pollution problem.
Found in Nature - Green Containers
Other artists like Gregg Segal They wanted to denounce the excess garbage that we generate in our day to day. This photographer, through the series "7 Days of Garbage ", exposes exactly how much garbage we produce in just one week. Segal decided to portray groups of people and families of different social classes, together with the garbage they produce. The result is shocking.
