Art object from garbage on ecology. Born in landfill

The Chinese artist and the author of Wang Installations CHGYUAN created an art facility on the environmental theme. The 11-meter tornado of plastic bottles wanders on the planet, covering art galleries and other "culture events" with high ceilings: such a mahuer is not all lounged. However, there is no special destruction yet: the ecopal needs - the topic is not new, and visitors of the exhibitions are worth ten minutes, and they will disperse.

Wang Zhiyuan living in Beijing in Beijing (Wang Zhiyuan) certainly wants his art to be socially important and useful: "If it is not so, I will feel guilty." Well, not only in Russia the poet is more than the poet, and the artist is more than the artist. Let's dream of a kind word and, and, and the British craftswoman.

53-year-old Wang Chegian in his life managed to see and try a lot: he was engaged in painting and sculpture, in his youth felt a strong influence (if not to say the pressure) of social realism and revised his artistic method in maturity, emigrated to Australia, but again returned to his homeland.

Now he came to the fact that art needs to all people. The more audience coverage, the sooner our world will change for the better. And in order to expand the "state" of lovers of beautiful, creativity should be understandable.

In the spirit of his views, Vang Zhiyuan created an installation with unnewned mission: Better let the garbage be an art object in galleries and exhibition halls, and even at all museum rare, but not lying where it fell on the streets and does not form ugly landfills.

When Wang Chegiuan began to collect an overhexious container in the Beijing Dumps, he doubted that something worthwhile could be created from the garbage. But then I realized that the art begins where the sum from the rearrangement as it changes. Starting to have a bottle to your taste, the author of the installation was so carried away that he brought the huge plastic mountain.

11 meters of plastic packaging from Beijing landfills are impressive at least sizes. Is the tornado's artistic value of Tornado, the time will judge. But it is already well that in the world has become less debris and more art.

With the eco-seeker, Guzel Amirova and found out why and why it creates art facilities from waste, as it can save the planet from pollution and whether the city is needed a full-fledged Research Museum.

Second life of plastic bottles

For seven years I have been engaged in artistic artsaykling (this is a reasonable use of resources and creative reincarnation of things), as it is confident that this direction once will help humanity to solve global problems associated with pollution of our planet. For example, this may draw attention to the repeated use of waste and to use in the work of materials, which cannot be recycled. It is the last aspect - the possibility of secondary use - and interested me once: I thought about the artsaykling on the polluted bank of the Black Sea.

Once in the evening I sat on the beach in a circle of friends, we chatted and had fun. Suddenly I looked around and saw that on the shore and the water itself there is a lot of garbage and glass bottles. At that moment, something like it was clicked in me, and I felt unity with the sea and reproach from him. After all, it applies to us with all your soul: shakes on your waves, gives good impressions and rest, and we throw in water the waste of civilization. Then I got up and just began to clean the coast. At the same time, from childhood I was a very creative person - I was always interested to create some things and crafts with my own hands. And when I gathered all the bottles from the beach, I immediately thought that they could be used again. Inspired by this idea, I bought something for the decor, pasted a seashells from the beach on the vessels from the beach, sprinkled with a golden spray and presented the resulting souvenirs to the sanatorium workers. I returned to Petersburg with the thought that I want to continue such an artistic and useful activities for nature. Then, in 2011, the color plastic bottles began to produce massively massively, and I began to actively work with them. At first, it created from them jewelry and small souvenirs: cut the petals from plastic, changed their shape with the help of a candle fire, and then added beads and embraced everything on a twisted plastic thread. The flow of ideas was inexhaustible, and soon I began to do practical things in everyday life, for example, lamps. By the way, my sharp passion for creativity from the resellers did not surprise friends. However, over time, they estimated my perseverance and began to help: support ideas and new projects, bring the washed bottles of rare colors and joined the separation of waste.

First exhibition from recycling

A few months after that cleaning on the seashore, I spent the first exhibition in my apartment where I invited everyone interested, including Eco -activists of St. Petersburg. So I met Denis Starck, the creator of the public movement "garbage. More. Thanks to his project, I realized that the problem of waste and environmental pollution is very global and concerns literally every person on Earth. Since then, my task has become conveyed to people that plastic is not only a garbage, but also a valuable resource that can be used extremely long. Namely: up to seven times in food production, after - in industrial-technical. People who have not previously encountered this question, it is difficult to realize it, but when they see my work live, they understand that any discarded bottle can be part of creative expression, without hurting the maritime inhabitants and the environment. Moreover, it is universal, and her life does not end after one-time use. Therefore, it is fundamentally important for me to work with discharged materials - only this can be attracted to people to sorting garbage and reusable use of resources.

Plastic Angel and Rock Musician Film

My first large-scale work was an angel with a globe in his hands (about 300 bottles and one globe went to create it). I made a frame of plastic, and then Lepila the statue in the technique of extension - created the volume of plastic ribbons. At the same time, all the work was without a drop of glue - plastic has a unique adhesion property with increasing temperature. By the way, this sculpture has become simultaneously and a good recycling - it can be completely recycled. But already in another work - the statue of the musician to the rock festival - I blinded my face from the stretch film, which movers were thrown onto the road right in front of me. By the way, she, in contrast to bottles, is not disposed of.

Of course, collecting garbage even for creativity - unpleasant and dirty work, and I, medic on education, is very scrupulous to this. All the bottles and other recycling I soak in the bucket and thoroughly. And although from year to year I ask myself how much I will collect materials from the street, I still continue to do it, and even on travels I am looking for beautiful bottles. So, for example, from Thailand, I brought a half ancient amazing purple bottles, which are not in St. Petersburg. However, yet lately I work with materials that are not accepted for processing. For example, with rivets from bakery products. They contain metal, and plastic, even eco-activists do not know what to do with them. Therefore, many people in the city collect this material for me through libraries and schools - I am a punk rivet punk. Judging by the activity of citizens, its size will be at least five meters. I also plan to do something from pressed substrates for products - this kind of foam also does not accept anywhere.

Future of the Planet and Museum of Recycling

Now I am in a big journey: from Thailand moved to Armenia, and from there to Georgia. And in all these countries, unfortunately, I meet a lot of garbage. In Pattaya, for example, the beaches and the ocean are so dirty that vacationers go swimming on a tiny island nearby. In Armenia and Georgia, many bottles, packages and other packages on the roads are among mountains and flowering apricots. In addition, in these two countries, there is no system on a separate collection of waste, and the turnover of disposable materials is growing every year. I think with horror, what will lead to such attitude towards Musor in the near future.

Unlike other countries and small towns of Russia, in St. Petersburg, you can easily live on European standards thanks to urban ecoprograms, social movements, activists and their huge daily work. Of course, many citizens are still conservative in this matter, and someone simply lacks information and ecoprosis. Therefore, I dream to open the Receykling Museum and Artsaykling in St. Petersburg. For this, I suppose I need to help the state - on some public basis, such a project is not effective. This museum could tell people how they came up with a plastic bottle, show the entire cycle of its production and the possibility of further processing (it can be made even a filler for a jacket or pillow, and most people know nothing about it!). After visiting such a place, many would have the desire to lead a separate garbage collection and hand over the processing materials.

Text: S. Chernyakova / City +

This and many other people in the past weekend were taught children and adult teachers of FGBOU VPO "Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy. S. G. Stroganova. "

Art from everyday life

"Art glass workshops" - already sounds promisingly, as the beginning of a magical story. She was told on Saturday in Stroganovka. And not just told, but gave themselves to write her new chapters, feel like real creators of the beautiful. And already from what happened, in the inner courtyard of the academy staged a spontaneous exhibition. Art objects of various sizes, difficulties made in different techniques "artists" of different ages - this is so weighty and beautiful turned out to be the result of the form of "Eco-glass - art from the repository".

In any big city, not to mention Moscow, the word "ecology" always sounds next to the word "problem". Julia Merzlikina, Art Glass Warman, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Candidate of Art History, told the guys and their parents about how little we wonder that tons of the most common household waste may not just get a second life, but to become the subject art. Usually used glass bottles, banks, light bulbs turn into garbage mountains. But stringent wizards in each fragment see the precious material. Determinently everything is from a glass bottle to an old kinescope - turns into conceptual art objects, a city-sku sculpture, installations and decor items, to decorate the most refined interior.

Glassware? Art object! Photo: AiF / Igor Kharitonov

Repeat it at home

Guests of the plarers were distributed to groups and went through the master skim, some names of which intrigue: sintering glass, stained glass windows, diamond face, sand-jet, painted ... I want to try myself everywhere! Something, of course, can be done only here, with the help of special tools and devices, and something is at home, giving the second life to what is about to be in the garbage. How to just take an empty jar from under any pickled cucumbers, wash, dry and stick the most fancy pattern of multicolored glass, remaining from repairing shallow tiles or fragments of the mirror! It turns out an exclusive container for trifles. Well, if you find a colored bottle, wrap it with thin tape and paint acrylic paint? Acrylic will quickly dry, so an excellent vase came out.

In Stroganovka, however, they made things more complicated: "Striped" bottles put on a pre-prepared giant metal "stem" and the "flower" head. Passed, painted - and installed giant flowers in the academy courtyard.

Diamond engraving: When the simple glass becomes sophisticated. Photo: AiF / Igor Kharitonov

Glass pastries

The workshop of sintering glass struck at first sight and first step. Because immediately, they are rushed into the eyes - flat, multicolored, unlike themselves. It was melted in the furnace wine bottles: the form did not lose, and the volume is already yes. The rods are fused in the neck - it means that all this will become one big installation ... Meanwhile, the guys are creating their art: those who are smaller, laid out flowers from the already sliced \u200b\u200bglass stripes. Those that older make an adult: draw sketches, lay out the complex compositions made of glass of different types. All this will go to one of the three stoves, heats up to 700 with a little degree and turn into something amazing, unexpected and, as teenagers say, cool.

On the shelves, walls, windowsill - work of students. Here and twisted into the knot brown bottle, and the Museum of Gorgon - also the glassware in the past life, and the rainbow "fossils" ... The teacher tells about how and from what the students are preparing "glass pastries". Especially everyone is affected by large transparent wings - each of them clearly occupied a whole oven ... the color of the glass is a separate story. Greenish is a window; Transparent, brown, blue, green, - all bottles. And the gray, the richest, from the old TV. If you have such, bring a kinescope into stroganovka, here you just say Thank you!

"Something you swam, guys!" - I want to say, looking into the stove for glass. Photo: AiF / Igor Kharitonov

Sandblasting selfie

Olga Chistyakova, Associate Professor, Member of the Union of Designers of the Russian Federation- in trend. Her wards make installation from an outcroll mirror and bottles of 0.33 l, which for some reason turned out to be pinned upside down. "This is a hairstyle. Let's finish, hang at our exhibition. You come, see your face, and on your head you seem like a miracle. And do Selfie! " - she says. Ideas for Selfie from Olga Anatolevna generally mass. Here, for example, a large glass, saved by two layers of special paper, - the guys diligently cut the maple leaves, glue a streak. "Then," explains Olga Anatolyevna, "we treat it in a sandblasting workshop, paint. There will be not only mattness, but also relief. And here we will install bottles as legs. It turns out the table. On him - a vase with the autumn bouquet. Represent what selfie will come out? "

She shows the works of their students, inspired by explaining how the layer of layer takes off the glass, how they make a diamond face ... "And where are all these beautiful bottles?" - I ask. "You will not believe! - Olga Chistyakova is responsible. - Yesterday I traveled several bars with an unusual request. Here I was given the glass floor ... I can not imagine what alcoholic amber was in my car ... Then we were all laundered: okay, the labels under hot water are easy to depart, but the traces of the glue - it had to be swept here. " That's really: I would know what kind of flowers are growing!

At the tip of the metal rod - that's where the magic of glass fiber is concentrated. Photo: AiF / Igor Kharitonov

Summer breathing

The work of the artist, designer is a tremendous work. Do not notice this was impossible to all those who tried themselves in the art of creating stained glass. Likewise, it was necessary to sharpen four color breakdowns, pick up a round middle (by the way, these were dyshki from bottles), sack the glass parts along the edges of the copper foil ribbon and fold everything in a smooth square. It was not here! The gaps remained from the unusual between the details, but Sergey Esipov, Master of the 1st category, Can fix everything. He sails pieces of tin solder on both sides and rushes me: "No, this is not a stained glass window in Tiffany technique. Stained glass window. It will be a voluminous art object! "

Shallow schoolchildren made from small jars, bubbles and bottles, which they usually put in a minibar in the hotel, bumblebees, dragonflies and bees - also helped the copper foil, solder and glass wings that made the guys in the glass workshop. The dragonflies scattered across the workshop - as in the summer she was re-... "Guys, do not forget to wash your hands well," resembles Sergey. - You still worked with acid! "

730 Celsius

Oh and not easy profession glass-powder! But what beautiful things can be created ... The guys are waiting for their turn to gas burners. The task of them seems to be easy: to melt a piece of glass, and then form a butterfly wing from it. However, even to give fragments, the state of the plasticine turns out to be not easy. "You are Gray Glass, not a metal rod," there is a guy of twelve Dmitry Untstevsky, master glass fiber 1st category- And then the glass does not "melt", and the metal is already heated. Yes, like this, move it, move ... "" Gas burners are small here, "explains Dmitry," Yes, and we need only 730-750 degrees for Celsius, it is precisely in these boundaries the glass becomes plastic, but not "flows."

Near the neighboring table Galina Krivolapova, Senior Lecturer, Member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federationshows how to flatten burning glass lumps so that it looks like a wing. "Well," says Galina Anatolyevna, when the "spare part" of the art object is ready, - now when looking at the bottle you will see the butterfly! " "The expression" Butterflies flute in the stomach "acquires a new meaning," adults are laughing, watching the successes of their offspring.

If the light bulb burned, she is time to become a masterpiece! Photo: AiF / Igor Kharitonov

Lamp as an art object

While I wandered on the master's workshop, admiring the works of big and small, I could not solve anything: was it good, without taking my own children-kindergartens? Still, breaking the glass with special tongs, glue pieces of mirrors and cut into a paper knife - the case is quite responsible. But it turned out that the occupation here will be found to anyone - and the destructive high school student engaged in the art school and, perhaps, already seeing himself as a student of the Academy, and the baby, only a recently mastered brush. In the painting workshop, the most young visitors to the forum of the eclast might and mainly painted blocked light bulbs. It turns out that a little fantasy - and this one would seem to be a completely nickless subject to become a unique designer toy for the New Year's Tree! The teacher only showed the guys samples of ornaments, and they included the imagination and began to make bold strokes ... how little needed, in order for each of us to start protecting the environment in its own way and fill in this world with large and small eco-sewers!

One of the serious and relevant problems that exist in the world is global environmental pollution. Any sphere of human activity can contribute to the solution of this problem, and art representatives did not remain aside. Many centuries, nature inspired the figures of art, and its beauty is captured in landscapes, sculptures, photographs.

But some artists make another step in the development of the relationship between art and the environment, creating work from the very nature of nature or creating works of art that emphasizes the idea of \u200b\u200bthe world of nature and about the trail left by mankind on it. Their work allows not only to give the second life to the materials used and create works necessary for human spiritual development, but also to urge humanity to preserve ecology.

This direction of the visual art is called Recycle-Art (he is trash-art or junk-art). Modern society is accustomed to consumption, without giving himself aware that the resources of the planet are not limitless. Many household items are quickly sent to disposal, without losing their physical properties. However, these things can also be further if they create new art objects from them.

RESAYKLING-ART puts its task to reduce the negative impact of various types of waste on the environment, and therefore it can be considered
as the direction of the environmental movement of a global scale. Its basic principles are the economies of natural resources and the maximum savings of materials, and the tasks are to reduce excessive products, revising materials and technologies for manufacturing objects, as well as changing consumer requirements.

TRESH ART (translated from the English trash means "trash") - the direction of modern art, in which industrial production was used to create art objects, the details of broken mechanisms and other household garbage. Today it has acquired the greatest relevance and is one of
common ways of creative "struggle" with environmental pollution. "TRESH-ART" is a new, fairly common direction in contemporary art. However, in 1918, the German Kurt Schwitters from Hannover began experimenting in the field of abstract art, sticking to the surface of the wrapper from the Papire, scraps of tickets and other blocks of paper with the text that were replaced by ordinary paints. So it can be called the founder of this style.

Nowadays, TRESH-ART is "alternative art", protest against templates and rules. Artists of this style create amazing art objects using production, paper, synthetic waste, and the garbage assembled on the landfill is all that is either thrown into a landfill, or the mezzanine, shed or garages litter.

In 2017, in Arkhangelsk, environmental activists built a statue of a huge elephant with a height of more than 8 meters long, a length of 12.5 meters, and about 6 meters wide, using 4,500 plastic bottles for its creation. Plastic dishes and containers in the world are produced very much, and after using plastic, mainly goes to disposal. And this despite the fact that it is almost not decomposed, although at the same time it can be processed 100%. The project organizers decided to attract the attention of people to the problem of garbage, recycling raw materials and separate waste collection.

Artists, sculptors from domestic waste create various works of art: landscapes, portraits, still lifes, installations, sculptures, collages ... So the man is not always distant in the garbage, poor and reasonable. It is possible, he is just a sculptor or artist collecting materials for the next masterpiece.

But not everyone can understand the high "garbage" art, so sometimes curious cases are happening: in 2001, the work of one of the most expensive artists of modern artists, Damien Hirst, is taking place from cigarettes and beer tolds. And the Swiss artist Carol Mei lost one of the works at the Art Fair in Hong Kong. We are talking about the installation of "Unhippy Meal", reminded the box from under the "Happy Mil" - a set of food and a toy network of fast food restaurants McDonald "s. The difference between the art object and empty carton from under Fastfood did not notice the cleaner and threw away the work May. And when I realized that I was wrong, Unhappy MEAL was already seriously damaged.

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