The stinkiest art form!

Guess what this week’s blog is about? Art with TRASH! I discovered this form of art existed just by doing some research in Google. I would never imagine people could create artistic forms with something disgusting and stinky, but the most interesting part is that these artists transform these ugly wastes into beautiful and good-looking pieces. I found some important artists of this art form.

The first one is Schult who creates human silhouettes in many important countries and cities like New York and the Great Wall of China. These sculptures are made mostly of cans, computer parts and generally everything that could fit in them.

Then we have an artistic duo, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, they also work with trash, in England, the interesting thing about them is that their sculptures are made so that they look like a mess when you first take a look at them, but at the time you set up a projector in front of the sculpture, an animated shadow is created. I really would like to see one of their sculptures because I think it’s awesome the fact that they can reflect the real work in just a shadow.

There are a lot of more artists who work with garbage, I think they may have another reason for doing this: recycling, which is a very good way to make people aware that recycling could be dome in many forms, like art.

Bibliography

Urbanist. weburbanist. October 2007. October 2011 <http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/04/recycled-art-from-trash/>.

Another origami master

Peter Callesen has been called a master in the art done with paper “origami” but himself doesn’t call his work specifically neither origami nor even art. He has been exhibiting his works since 1997 in many collaborative exhibitions, but also in solo exhibitions sponsored by some other important artists.

He was born in Denmark in 1967 but then he moved to London to study his latest years at Goldsmiths College. About his work he says he almost only works with white paper, it his favorite because it is the most common and consumed media by companies to carry information through. He also thinks the withe and simple paper is better to create art because we can be related and maybe identified to it, so that we could better understand the final work.

Let’s analyze a little bit this kind of work. Not only Callesen’s, but any work related with origami. I think this is an amazing technique; it’s awesome how these artists can give feeling and liveliness to something they create with a flat and simple piece of paper.

Callesen particularly works the most with white paper, but there are many others that give some more of realism to their work, like Bert Simons, who mostly creates busts with paper! It’s really impressive how these people can give all that liveliness to flat paper.

The short distance between time and shadow. By Peter Callesen

Bibliography

Callesen, Peter. About Callesen . 2009. October 2011 <http://www.petercallesen.com/about/>.

Hongkiat. 2007. October 2011 <http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/>.