It is a pleasure for us to disembark in Pittsburgh, at the brand new Re:NEW Festival, just in time for Drap-Art’s 20th anniversary. After 20 years of regular activities in Spain and some punctual international projects such as the itinerant exhibition in Asia Drap-Art: Nothing Disappears, Everything Transforms, organized in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, on show in Beijing, Shanghai and Tokio or the collaborative project From Waste to Resource. Recovering Sustainable Attitudes, organized together with non-profit organizations from Germany, Hungary, France and Italy, Drap-Art now extends its activities to South and North America. In Spring we launched the first Drap-Art Uruguay in Montevideo, which will be continued as an annual event, every year in April and now we are having our North American premiere at the Re:NEW festival, of which we are a main pillar and which we helped create. For me it is a significant step to cross over to this double continent: In South America the inequality and scarcity of means of many sectors of the population has brought forth the most ingenious and talented recyclers of the world, who have
inspired many well-known artists, ever since the beginning of the 20th Century. North America, on the contrary is known for its wealthy consumer society responsible for producing the highest rate of garbage per capita of the whole planet. And this again has inspired many outstanding artists, amongst them Pittsburgh born Andy Warhol. Our organizattion has been working for 20 years as a platform for artists who have made it their task to raise awareness about the problems of pollution, to raise awareness in the population about the necessity to change our habits and to find away to make progress and nature coexist in harmony. It is for this reason that we are happy to disembark in Pittsburgh: A city that thrived through the steel industry and has now become a city of Renewal. Just like Bilbao, its sister city in Spain, it has left behind its industrial past to become a city dedicated to art, culture, education, investigation and sustainability, showing us the way to an environmentally more friendly future.
Haydee Acero Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1968
www.haydeeacero.com Haydee Acero was born in Buenos Aires in 1968. In 1994, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Buenos Aires. She worked as a layer until 2003, when she decided to make a change in her life and become a visual artist. Since then she has attended many courses including several workshops of Juan Carlos Distefano, the textile artist Silke, Pablo Bobbio, Sara Mansilla and Lili Esses. Currently, her work is focused on sculpture and installations. Recycling materials are fundamental for her in creating artworks.
La Trama 2013-2016 and to be continued 480x 500 cm Mural made out of recycled DVDs and CDs
Plastic Power Dress, 2008 70 x 40 x 28 cm Dress made out of bottle caps, soda can rings, knitted plastic bags and plastic soda cans, six pack holders, champagne bottle cap wire
Hedonism, 2015 92 x 54 cm Mixed media, acrylic paint on cardboard, plastic flowers and electronic waste
Red Phone, 2016 29 x 17 x 5 cm Phone parts, electronic waste, puzzle pieces, painted with acrylic and plastic on flip flops
L’ Art, 2016 65 x 45 cm Mixed media, acrylic paint on cardboard, old paint brushes and tubes, electronic waste materials, plastic
Jana Álvarez Cantabria (Spain), 1966
Jana is a multidisciplinary artist with training in Fine Art and Fashion Design, based in Barcelona. She has long professional experience as a designer, illustrator, costume maker and prop master for various fashion brands, film, TV and advertising, Catalonian television, and production companies. Her work revolves around the feminine figure as a metaphoric archetype of creative force and the universal individual. She reflects on human kind as a devastating, indifferent, ethically dual element, destroying the planet. Wrapped up in colourful Pop aesthetics, she creates new myths, based on recycling of natural and artificial elements. One of her concerns is the relationship of humans and their new habitat: technology. “Is technology our new Nature?” she wonders. “Then what happens to nature in the real sense of the word? Have we missed something? Have we even stopped to think about it?” Waiting to Return, 2015 / 20 x 26 cm Mixed media with obsolete cosmetics and acrylic paint on polo sticks and flip flops, collage with sand, chips, broken brushes and plastic waste, motherboards and remote control elements The End, 2013 / 39 x 64 cm Painting and collage of objects on newspaper, scanner screen and printer lid
Marcel·lí Antúnez Moià (Spain), 1959
www.marceliantunez.com Internationally recognized as one of the most relevant figures of electronic art and performance experimentation, Marcel·lí Antúnez has developed a personal and iconoclastic visual universe based on reflections on artistic production systems he calls Sistematurgia. He has created installations and performed in museums, galleries, theatres and unconventional spaces in more than 40 countries. His work includes mechatronic performances with robots, interactive installations and collaborations with groups such as La Fura dels Baus, of which he was a founding member and leader in the eighties. His work was awarded first prize at the Paris Etrange Festival in 1994, the Max Award in Spain in 2001, and received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona in 2004.
Alsaxy (Video 4´) ALSAXY is an interactive installation for all audiences, the product of a residence Marcel·lí Antúnez district of Hautepierre in Strasbourg, France.
Alsaxy 41 Inkpainting on mural painted directly on the wall: Megafish 9 pieces 21 x 29 cm Geules 16 pieces 21 x 29 cm Kiosk 5 pieces 39,5 x 32 cm Batamaille 6 pieces 39,5 x 32 cm Aircraft 3 pieces 56 x 41 cm Acrilic box with sketchbook 100 x 43cm
Julio Armengol Reus (Spain), 1960
He began in 2011 to design jewelry utilizing upcycled materials like bottle caps, soda cans, corks and bicycle tires. In 2012 he added handbags, purses and belts made from recycled rubber, vinyl records and recycled fabrics to his collection. In 2016 his work turned towards more sculptural and unique collector’s pieces using all kinds of recycled objects. Metal hubcaps, cart wheels, kitchen utensils (generally aluminium) transform under his hands and receive a second opportunity. These somewhat particular objects provoke a discussion with the viewer that inspires debate between the use he gives them and the value of a tribute. Right now he is at another turning point: his collection of disposable PET bottles is taking him to experiment in the field of furniture design, giving life to a great variety of ordinary everyday objects. The piece he presents here is a stool that combines old vinyl records, bicycle tyres, and PET plastic bottles.
Eco-Stool, 2016 40 x 30,5 x 30,5 cm Stool made out of a vinyl record, PET plastic bottles and bicycle tyres
VerĂłnica Arellano Barcelona (Spain), 1979
solounpincelycolor8.blogspot.com Arellano lives in Minorca since childhood. She graduated in Fine Arts in Barcelona and completed an Erasmus at the University of Bologna, Italy. She took the doctoral course Painting in the Digital Era, where Alex Mitrani selected her to promote as an emerging artist. She obtained a grant from Restaurateurs Sans Frontières for the Artogether project in Istanbul, a two months of work project with artists of different nationalities. After eleven years, she returned to Minorca, where she currently lives and produces her artistic projects.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt, 2016 300 x 300 cm Varnish on egg cartons, joined by rings
Rafael Arroyo Gijón (Spain), 1957
www.rafael-arroyo.com He began his art studies in Gijón in Alejandro Miere’s Workshop and the Artist Group “Gijón.” He moved to Barcelona at very young age where he discovered the possibilities of enamel in art. He studied enamel techniques in various artists’ workshops, at the Llotja Superior School of Art and Design and worked for different jewelers. He has won various prizes such as the New Materials Integration Award in Tokyo (2009) and exhibited in international shows. Creaturas Marinas is a project that aims to reflect on the degradation suffered by the marine environment. These beings arise from the fusion of diverse materials we could define as junk with a technique as old and traditional as fired enamel on metal, traditionally associated with jewelry and luxurious objects. Thus, Arroyo transforms things our consumer society has dumped and despised into singular objects to denounce the culture of squandering that is responsible for tons of waste that damage the fragile marine ecosystems. Creatura Marina Barbada, 2012 24 x 28 x 19 cm Creatura Marina Argentada, 2012 30 x 33 x 18 cm Fire heated enamel on metal, wood
Consuelo Bautista Bogotá (Colombia), 1957
www.consuelobautista.com Over the past 30 years she has done several personal projects in Cuba, Colombia, Israel, Montenegro, Galicia, Barcelona, Morocco, Senegal and Mexico, related to documentary photography, that have been exhibited and published in various media, international magazines and catalogues. She has done commissioned photography in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, cultural and natural heritage for Gas Natural. In 2007 she was awarded the Visual Arts Prize of the City of Barcelona for the project A los Invisibles (To the Invisible People). She has imparted Masterclasses and workshops at the Universities and Schools in Spain, Colombia, Guatemala, among others. She is a founding member of the Documentary Photography Center of Barcelona, lafotobcn. In Pittsburgh she proposes to develop a project that reviews Pittsburgh in the steel era and now, taking photos, recovering old photos, contrasting images of the past and present, in a publication created on the remains of the reels donated by the local arts/community newspaper. A los Invisibles, 2004 Fotos from the publication that forms part of the project
Santas Amas de Casa, Especie en extinction
Limpiadora, 2008 120 x 40 x 30 cm Collage of objects on ironing board
Educadora, 2009 120 x 40 x 20 cm Collage of objects on ironing board
Camarera, 2005 190 x 60 x 60 cm Collage of objects on ironing board
Nodriza, 2005 190 x 60 x 60 cm Collage of objects on ironing board
Karol Bergeret Barcelona (Spain), 1975
tallerdeideas.info Karol Bergeret is an industrial designer and artist. In 2002, Karol found an abandoned ironing board next to a rubbish skip. Its shape reminded her of the pedestals for saints in churches, but its homely origin revealed the women who would use this device in their daily chores. Thus was born Saintly Housewives (an endangered species), an artistic tribute to so many great women relegated to the anonymity of their homes. With ironing boards collected on the street, Bergeret extols the virtues of these women devoted to their homes and families, to be as worthy of appreciation and respect as Saints are.
Planchadora, 2007 140 x 40 x 30 cm Collage of objects on ironing board
Orson Buch Paris (France), 1967
Born in 1967 in Paris, the son of German artists, he grew up on the island of Formentera from 1970 to 1982. After that he returned to Paris to finish his studies, and still lives there. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 1988. He has since exhibited in France, Germany and Spain. In addition to his paintings, for many years he has made sculptures from tin cans, representing animals with the minimum intervention of materials, respecting part of the original object.
Installation of fishes, 2012-2016 150 x 150 cm Installation of tin can fish
Juan Carlos Beneyto Valencia (Spain), 1960
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This painter and author of comics has held numerous individual and group exhibitions in Spain, Germany and the U.S.A. Although his work usually is expressed with painting on canvas, he occasionally uses recycled materials such as cardboard, wood and tape, with which he creates three-dimensional pieces. These pieces are conceived as sculptural, architectural and urban projects or simply imagined objects developed from a triangular unit without ending or aim other than to make thought tangible and to breathe new life into forgotten and discarded matter.
Blue Plug, 2007 73 x 60 cm Acrylic, cardboard, wood and plastic on canvas
Floating City, 2013 65 x 90 x 12 cm Assemblage made with metal files
Artificial Intelligence, 2011 170 x 170 x 4 cm Assemblage made out of aluminum car cylinder heads
Alberto Carvajal Ciempozuelos (Spain), 1958
www.albertocarvajal.es Alberto Carvajal is a multidisciplinary creator who moves between sculpture, interior and furniture design, lighting and architectural elements. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and won awards in national craft and sculpture competitions. An excellent craftsman in iron and wood, he also appreciates any other material, with a clear preference for those marked by use and the passage of time, as can be appreciated in his pieces. Compositions created by the accumulation of identical or similar elements and the use of geometries that appear to bring order to the initial chaos are the main hallmarks of his work. The pieces on display in this exhibition are clear expressions of this procedure.
Milano Chair, 2010 65 x 70 x 110 cm Chair made out of residual iron and steel cuttings Little Frozen Sun, 2015 70 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture composed with steel car motor valves
Welcome to Africa Mr. Apple, 2015 / 75 x 65 cm Assemblage made with electronic circuits and computer components
Alex Cardona Barcelona (Spain), 1952 He works in his graphic design studio, combining it with one of his obsessions: to construct objects out of the junk that he accumulates and collects, in an attempt to extend its life, giving it a certain aesthetic value. The piece he presents here talks about how the e-waste of the “first world” is recycled in the poorest countries, and causes heavy pollution there, endangering people’s health. The symbol of the bitten apple made out of its own waste is a form of denouncing companies that manufacture electronics and their inability to solve the problems they cause.
Les nouveaux horaires pour l’au delà, 2009 24 x 52 x 17 cm. Cardboard and paper
Guillaume Cassar Bailleul (France), 1970
guillaume.cassar.free.fr He creates unique and precious books, constructed from papers collected in the streets. After careful rebinding, he gives their pages new life and a second reading. Woven with humor and nostalgia, the resulting volumes are full of emotion. Over the past ten years Cassar has created some 500 books, including travel guides, book-furniture, and even book-machines. In parallel to this work he also dedicates himself to outlaying the editions and teaching his discipline: the artist’s book. He lives in the north of France as close as possible to the Belgian border.
Tono Carbajo Vigo (Spain), 1960
www.tonocarbajo.net
During his long career, Tono Carbajo has utilized a hybrid of languages and techniques. He has reused materials and created very personal poetics, achieving a stimulating balance between the cold conceptual cleanliness of his works and the warm melancholy contributed by the materials used. Carbajo presents a group of artworks from the Expelled series, a set of works in which he has reused door lintels, windows and objects salvaged from old buildings in neighborhoods threatened by gentrification. These are meant as visual poems of honest subjectivity that at the same time denounce situations such as the gentrification of Barcelona’s old city center.
Hastag, 2013 / 104 x 120 cm Reclaimed beams from demolitions and fluorescent tubes
Rafael Chehín aka TAK Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1972
Rafael Chehín’s artworks have a sense of humor that simulataneously denigrates and celebrates the cultural production of the American Way of Life. The title of the series, CIA (Caída del Imperio Americano) has a double meaning that refers both to the Fall of the American Empire,and the fall of the materials themselves. Rafael gives new life to objects that were destined to disappear, bestowing them with new meaning and new narratives.
Pensador, 2012 110 x 75 x 45 cm Plastic and metal
CG Reciclado Artístico Cristina Pino, La Plata, 1962 Gustavo Suasnábar, San Miguel de Tucumán, 1963 (Argentina)
CG Reciclado Artístico is a collective workshop founded by Gustavo Suasnábar and Cristina Pino that has a history of over 20 years working with various recycled materials, such as glass, metal, wood, paper, and others. The artist couple has done research and developed methods as well as special techniques with each one of these materials. The common denominator they all share is the use of elements normally discarded as everyday “junk”. Both artists believe that art can raise the viewer’s awareness on topics such as environmental care.
Pachamama, 2012 190 x 60 x 55 cm Sculpture made of welded soda cans
Sol Courreges Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1975
www.solcourregesbone.com
Sol Courreges graduated in Graphic Design and Fine Arts at the University of Buenos Aires. She worked at advertising agencies and design studios in Argentina and the United States. She earned a Master of the Arts and in 1999 founded her own studio, Ideaslocus in Sitges, Spain. In 2009 she also founded artecrearte, dedicated to making a difference by recycling unused items to create accessories, fashion complements and decorative objects. She has exhibited in many in recycling art shows, such as Recicla Madrid (Caixaforum), Mercantic (Sitges), LabArt (Astúries), Centre Grabrielet (Formentera) and Drap-Art (CCCB, Barcelona). She now lives in Fomentera.
Still Music, 2012 300 x 200 cm Vinyl records, cut out with a saw, torch and welder
Bryce LeVan Cushing Englewood, Colorado (USA), 1973
www.brycelevancushing.com
American artist Bryce LeVan Cushing believes that western culture has become overly attached to physical items and external power. He chooses to smash the objects that people covet and convert them into recycled art. He is guided by the idea that there are enough material things in the world today and therefore works only with vintage or used items. His sculptures have been shown and sold around the world. Cushing considers himself part of the third gender movement and an art shaman in recovery from exposure to the American consumerism conspiracy. He believes passionately in the benevolence of art, and his sculptures represent a connection with this spiritual power. He is also a natural foods chef.
Alien Twin, 2009 57 x 36 x 24 cm Self Portrait # 2, 2007 50 x 48 x 53 cm Award Winning Elephant , 2007 39 x 50 x 25 cm Broken porcelain, ceramics and trinkets
Rosรณ Cuso Barcelona (Spain), 1965
www.rosocuso.com
There is a kind of ying and yang embedded in the formal essence of things: the holes of weathered stone, the age lines in a tree trunk, the distribution of the thorns on a bush, the laminated pattern on the underside of a mushroom, the shapes of a diatom... in everything order and disorder, geometry and chaos, the trail of growing and dying coexist. All this gives the artist a dual feeling of wanting to understand and analyze but also abandon herself to contemplation. These are the engines of her work and what she intends to explore.
Cercles que bateguen (Circles beating), 2015 59 x 59 x 9 cm. Paper paste and metal
Dr. Zenon Tenerife (Spain), 2013
www.doctorzenon.com Dr. Zenon was born in 2013 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, with the intention of creating robots assembled from found objects Dr. Zenon has exhibited in emblematic places such as the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and the Circle of Fine Arts of Tenerife, in Festivals such as Drap-Art and markets such as Palo Alto Market (Barcelona), Nรณmada Market and Fair for Independent Design (Madrid). Dr. Zenon work is included in private collections in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, England, Turkey, United Status and China.
Bower, 2016 37x17x14 cm Tea tin, glass jar, chucks, combination wrenches, various mechanical parts, screws and nuts Rolo, 2016 67x23x15 cm Carbide lamp, reducing gas burner, carboy, combination wrenches, tubing, screws and nuts Zoltar, 2016 62x16x14 cm Coffee machines, electric ceramic insulator, aluminum hammer, wrench, pipes, screws and nuts
Ulises Pistolo Eliza Valencia (Spain), 1968
Eliza is an artist and cultural manager. For a decade he directed the Purgatori art gallery and currently directs the Vilarcangel Art Centre in Valencia. He founded the Observatori Festival (International Festival of Artistic Investigation) and Pronostica (Festival of contemporary art), His work is an artistic analysis of the structure of reality, with the physical means based on the interdisciplinary character of creative media. Ulisses works with the sacredness and magic of artistic creation, a concept that disappeared with the last humanists of the Renaissance and which the Romantics tried to rescue. His work focuses on documenting, rescuing and restoring the link between the magical and the creative. Horahora, 2012-2016 22 x 3 x 0,6 cm Collages inside 6 wrist watche
Hector Escudero aka Hache Creativa Barcelona (Spain), 1981
hachecreativa.blogspot.com HACHE (the letter H in Spanish) a letter that is the alter ego of Hector Escudero. His professional and creative career has always been closely related to the world of image in all its forms, art being what interests him most. HacheCREATIVA has worked in interior lighting, window displays and visual merchandising with fashion companies. In his works he wants to show us a different way of recycling materials and everyday objects that are already out of the consumption cycle, giving them a new use and reactivating them for the market.
PENcil, 2013 22 x 25 x25 cm Pens and metal wiring Sofegg, 2014 79 x 120 x 100 cm Egg cups, bicycle tyres, plastic pallet
Farafina, Barcelona + Malik M’Baye, Dakar www.farafina.es
Farafina is a friendly fair trade commerce that seeks to promote and help artisans and designers from North Africa, such as M’Baye, a Senegalese artist who works with salvaged materials, and to identify new forms of creativity that appear in sub-Saharan Africa, which have greatly influenced more advanced European design. M’Baye is one of the artisans represented by Farafina in Barcelona. He belongs to a group of artisans that developed years ago in a barrack area in Dakar. In surroundings where there were no means to buy raw materials, the craftspeople created furniture and all kinds of objects with what they had at hand.
Meditation, 2009 61 x 94 x 67 cm Iron and bottle tops
Relax, 2016 / 60 x 63,5 x 111,5 cm Table made of recycled wine crate sand glass surface
Dancing the knight away, 2015 30 x 30 x 30 cm. Wood, wire, objects
Rafael Ferrer
Steven Forster
Barcelona (Spain), 1967
County Durham (England), 1960
www.ferrermarcs.com Barcelona is his source for inspiration. Rafael, selftaught and restless artist, still follows today the thread of the memory of the smells, shapes and colors that have accompanied him from very early childhood in the workshop of the family business. His taste for aesthetics, for the colors that speak to him and the forms that inspire him are at the root of a process of creative innovation. A handful of old wine crates that might have ended in the bonfires of the night of San Juan, are transformed into unique and exclusive pieces of furniture designs under his hands.
Steven Forster is a British artist (painting, sculpture, music, performance), who has been living and working in Catalonia since 1989. In addition to numerous exhibitions in Spain, he has executed various public sculptural interventions and has actively participated in diverse arts projects such as; international recycling art marathons, sound sculpture installations, movement and light sculptures and ephemeral sculptural interventions. He is also involved in many music and performance projects. Since April 2010, he lives and works in Hostalric, Girona, where he has established Van Imagination - ArtWorks, Gallery-Studio in December 2013.
Josecarlos Florez Lima (Peru), 1978
Josecarlos Florez lives in Barcelona, where he obtained a master’s degree in digital arts at the University Pompeu Fabra. The work of this sculptor extends from traditional sculptures made from recycled materials to electronic pieces, where he experiments with new open source technologies (free software programming, the use of sensors, sound and visual experimentation, performance). Here he presents Pieces of furniture resting on chair, a sculpture that “squats” in a space reserved to human beings, such as an armchair, inviting us to reflect upon whether this is a “waste of space” or not.
Pieces of furniture resting on chair, 2012 120 x 170 x 100 cm Installation of chair, pieces of old furniture and little wooden blocks
Ignasi Foj Barcelona (Spain), 1964
www.ignasifoj.wordpress.com Ignasi Foj is an autodidact artist. He started painting in the eighties, when he worked in film, television and advertising. It was also then that he began to make sculptures: during the long hours of filming, he collected waste materials and turned them into “figures”, sculptures made out of found objects and junk, which is how he calls his three-dimensional compositions. Some of his works are in private collections in Spain, France, USA, Brazil and Japan. Collectors’ Chess is his latest creation. Thirtytwo pieces, thirty-two figures; each piece, a different story.
Collectors’ Chess, 2015 / 80 x 80 x 31,5 cm Chess-board of pine and ocumé, covered with squares of etc wenge and maple wood, framed in polychrome. Figures made out of springs, earrings, keys, washing machine and swing machine pieces, van injection pumps.
Felip Gaig Barcelona (Spain), 1964
Gaig has held many individual exhibitions in Catalonia and taken part in group shows in Spain, Germany, China and Japan. He was awarded the Residu’Art Prize in the category of Emerging Artist in 2010. The work shown, Els Horts de Sant Vicens (The Orchards of Sant Vicens), emulates the creative spirit of survival: the improvised fences of the village orchards made from old bedsteads, pieces of found wood, bamboo, pallets and wiring. Gaig wants to make a point of the unlimited inventiveness with which, although unintentionally, we make really beautiful things pursuing a productive purpose; re-creating spaces which become true mosaics of recovered materials that form simple and practical fences and are coarsely beautiful at the same time.
The Orchards of Sant Vicens I, II, II, 2012 50 x 50 x 6 cm Diverse waste materials from construction sites
Liu Guangyun Jinan (China), 1962
www.n2galeria.com/portfolio_page Liu Guangyun lives between Shanghai and Mainz, Germany. He has held many solo exhibitions and participated in group shows and art fairs in China, Germany, Spain, Korea, Indonesia, Poland and Italy. He amalgamates aesthetic and philosophical precepts from the East and the West. As if he were a plastic surgeon, Liu composes recycled faces from advertisements and encapsulates them in thick layers of resin with silk flowers, pieces of paper and other materials, making a critique of the quest for eternal youth and the artificiality of beauty stereotypes.
Plastic Surgery, 2009 100 x 80 x 8 cm Collage of photographs and recycled surgical silicone bag in wooden box
Omar Jaime Lambayeque (PerĂş), 1977
Omar is a musician, goldsmith, sculptor and researcher of ancient silversmith techniques, born on the north coast of Peru. He studies the interpretation of ancient mythography and iconography of his country. He lives in Spain and Peru but just spent a year travelling around Asia and northern Europe, where he taught music therapy with the Hang, a recently invented instrument. In Peru he founded a crafts house-school for street children, totally on his own, with only the help of his family to build the house and take care of the children. He is currently researching the artistic use of old keys and the pieces presented at Drap-Art’14 are a result of this study. Libertad, 2014 / 60 x 36 x 12 cm Falcon, 2016 / 50 x 40 x 15 cm Cindarella, 2014 / 5 x 24 x 6 cm Old keys and recycled metal plate welded one to the other Skull, 2016 / 38 x 35 x 6 cm Keys, spoons, mineral stones and boar teeth Alien, 2016 / 30 x 35 x 6 cm Spoons, forks, stones and recycled metal plate welded one to the other
Daniel Lanzilotta New York (USA)
www.daniellanzilotta.com Daniel is an environmental artist who is turning tides. Using found objects and discarded plastics salvaged from global beaches and by ways, he fashions international debris into collectible sculptures and wearable art communicating the unlimited potential in all things -- while calling attention to the crisis of plastics polluting our oceans. The Bronx-native discovered his passion for giving significance to the insignificant during his parenting years raising his son in France. he and his son would comb the beaches for ‘treasures’ washed ashore to incorporate into artistic works until they realized the debris was overwhelmingly abundant – too much so for the ecosystem to bear. Equipped with a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and knife skills honed as a trained chef and master carpenter, Lanzilotta carved a niche in the environmental art scene unique to his persona -delicately- manipulated sculptures and highly crafted accessories dedicated to the higher purpose of honoring Nature and Spirit. Hat for Late Summer / 30 x 30 x 56 cm Plastic ocean debris, green plastic coffee stirrers, leather string, copper wire, broom bristles, plastic laundry bag, umbrella parts Pointing to Heaven / 38 x 38 x 46 cm Plastic ocean debris, umbrella parts, broom bristles, crystal, one single strand of hair
DS Leรณn Barcelona (Spain), 1979
www.dsleon.com DS Leon shapes his work by using different techniques he acquired and perfected over the years. His main project is a reflection on humanity, its daily actions and impact on the environment. He has participated in many contemporary art events with highlights that included the 17th International Sculpture Open in Venice; the 10th Contemporary Art Fair Art in Madrid and the Festival 18951 Km, in Berlin. He has a number of works in private collections across three different continents.
El Pensament, 2014 196 x 56 x 75 cm Iron sculpture, wood, wire, steel plate and recycled construction light-bulb
Hombre López Barcelona (Spain), 1971
www.hombrelopez.com Under the pseudonym Hombrelópez, Daniel Lopez Montanés works in Design and visual projects. From 1988 to 1998 he studies art, design and photography at the University of Hawaii, in Manoa and Graphic Design and Art at EINA School of Design and Art in Barcelona. After graduating in 1998, he moves to Minorca, where he creates his art work today. In the last three years we can highlight his participation in various collective projects. In 2011 he participates in Caralibro, in Loring Art, Barcelona; M2 at Sa Fàbrica, Maó; We Love Colours, urban art at KKKB, Barcelona; Print The Fabric! At Sa Fàbrica. In 2012 he participates in the exhibition Juegos Reunidos, at Gallery Vidrart, Ciutadella, and in Weart Festival, Barcelona. In 2013 he exhibits at the Asia Contemporary Art Show in Gallery Fernando Alcolea, with Las magníficas en Hong Kong (The Magnificent in Hong Kong). In 2014 he develops the project Supervillain Voodoo, together with his Sister Ana López. The first 6 Supervillains were exhibited at Pronóstica Festival in August 2014, in Maó. The collection then grew up to 12 Supervillains, which were exhibited at Drap-Art’14. Cherilyn Guenroe, 2016 / 99 x70 cm Paint on wood
Jordi Lรณpez-Alert Capellades (Spain), 1971
Lopez-Alert has a degree in Fine Arts and a diploma in Library and Information Science from the University of Barcelona, UB. In 2009 he stayed for a longer period of time in Michigan (USA), where he developed a series of poetic and contemporary works with reused paper grocery bags, he named the Michigan Papers Series. His interest in the environment, industrial society, landscape and everything that surrounds it, and how it affects and conditions human life, are recurrent in his work. Michigan Papers is the starting point for many of his later artistic proposals, in which he claims the contemporaneity of drawing, painting and printmaking in a world dominated by digital imaging.
Papers from Michigan series Chinese ink on paper grocery bag Connecting horizons #2. 2009 95 x 55 cm Noisy Factories #2. 2009 95 x 55 cm
s/t, 1998 / 30 x 40 cm Assemblage of paper and textile
Angie Karatza
Ski, 2015 / 28 x 35 x 10 cm Sculpture-collage on motherboard
David MartĂn
Athens (Greece)
Barcelona (Spain), 1972
Angie was born in Athens, Greece. She began her Fine Art Studies at the Vacalo School of Design (Athens, 1984-1986). In 1986, she received a scholarship that allowed her to study at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Athens with Nikos Kessamlis. In 1992, she received the prestigious Yiannis Speropoulos grant and that same year she organized her first solo show at Artio Gallery in Athens. Since then, she has participated in a number of group and solo shows and has shown her work at the 6th Bienalle for young artists in Barcelona, Spain.
David has worked in the restoration business, in computing and as framer. He is an autodidact artist; he has not studied Fine Arts, but has been working in museums, where he was introduced into the art world. He began creating his own works, all sculptures, influenced by other artists and a life time full of inspiration. He made his exhibition debut at Drap-Art’15 with Paparazzi and Ski, works that represent our current technological world in which we are always connected, even if we are involved in other spheres of activity.
Teresa Matilla Salamanca (Spain), 1957
Teresa works with a great variety of techniques, genres and materials: collage, paint, abstract, figurative, glass, wood, paper and recycled materials. She has exhibited in a variety of places in Spain and in Europe. For this exhibition, Matilla wanted to make a special piece centered on Pittsburgh. When she started reading about its history, what struck her most and inspired her piece was the Cathedral of Learning. In the resulting artwork iron and steel plate symbolize the city’s past; some of the university’s achievements are denoted by a small TV set; the formula of the synthesis of vitamin C written with syringe caps, the polio vaccine in a full syringe and electronic components that define the city of today. The lace mantilla, where the structure of the building and spirit it represents emerge like an apparition out of the fire, in two senses: the fire of the blast furnaces of industry and the vitality of the university despite the region’s economic crisis. Small mirrors function as the interior light of the 10 dimes a brick building, where so many projects of innovation have been conceived. To complete the mosaic, she includes one of her fetish objects: a fan, evoking the tail of the ruffed grouse, the Pennsyvlania state bird. Pittsburgh Dreams: Ten Cents a Brick, 2016 / 120 cm x 60 cm Assemblage of objects, materials, paper paste and oil paint on cut out burlap
Javier Mariscal Valencia (Spain), 1950
www.mariscal.com One of the most representative artists of the Barcelona brand, having developed its Olympic mascot, Javier Mariscal first created comic strips, notably his series Los garriris, and soon included illustration, sculpture, graphic and interior design into his activity. Among his many works we would like to highlight the logo design Bar Cel Ona (1979), his exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris and his participation in the Documenta (1987). In 1989, his character Cobi was chosen as mascot for the Olympic Games Barcelona 1992 and he founded Estudio Mariscal. 1999 saw the premiere of Mariscal’s audiovisual show Colors. In 2006 he participated in Arco Art Fair with sculptures Crash! and Esculturas Vespa, some of which are on show here. In 2009, the Mariscal Drawing Life retrospective exhibition was held at the Design Museum in London, and in 2010 he had another retrospective in Gaudi’s iconic building La Pedrera. Mariscal’s graphic novel Chico & Rita was released as an animated film in 2011.
Vespas 2007, 25 x 12 cm Little wood sculptures on metal rods
Fabio De Minicis BahĂŒa Blanca (Argentina), 1968
www.fabiodeminicis.com De Minicis has lived in Barcelona since 2003. He studied Fine Arts at the INSA National Institute of Art, now known as IUPA, and Architecture at the University of Architecture, Planning and Design in Mar de Plata, Argentina. His career has always been associated with art and communication, with a common denominator in his work of letters and alphabets. He recycles objects with artistic and decorative intentions, mixing a range of disciplines from graphic art to decoration. He suggests a journey through the different forms of things, knowing that the only way to see them is not looking at them from a distance, but to view them differently from how they appear before our eyes and try to give them a different sense, language or meaning. Objects in the shape of letters, alphabets, fonts and all that can be extracted from these concepts are his work and passion. The exploration of different formats and materials together with the means he uses to research them and recycling are part of his philosophy, both as message and matter.
Frozen Art, 2014 / 142 x 74 x30 cm Fridge door, neon letters and diverse objects Foto: Juanchi Pegoraro
Bill Miller Cleveland (USA), 1962
www.billmillerart.com Miller creates assemblages of recycled linoleum flooring that utilize only the found surface to render its subjects with no added paint. His images range from bucolic landscapes to surrealistic, fiercely political pieces that often draw on iconic news and pop culture images that have informed society’s common memory. His unexpected use of familiar patterns taps into the medium’s nostalgic qualities; imparting a sense of personal history and rediscovery within each piece. Miller’s commissions include two posthumous Frank Zappa album covers and the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival poster. His work has been exhibited internationally in London, Spain, Australia, and widely across the U.S. including NYC, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C, Philadelphia, Austin, New Orleans and Baltimore, highlighted by a solo show at Mr. Rain’s Funhouse in the American Visionary Art Museum. He has been covered in many magazines and newspapers including the NY Times, LA Times, and Chicago Tribune as well as featured in several books on recycled art including Found Object Art 2 and ReTrash. Steal Mill , 2016 / 167 x 243 cm Vintage linoleum recuperated from old floors
Flujo infinito, 2014 / 46 x 41 x 12 cm Steel rods, piano strings and silver welding
David Moreno Barcelona (Spain), 1978
Sopa de peix, 2005 / 40 x 45 cm Mixed technique on canvas
H Moyano Minorca (Spain), 1976
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He´s work stems from the transfer of two-dimensional paper to a three-dimensional space in sculptural format. After the juxtaposition and continuous netting of steel rods of different thicknesses, a series of micro-atmospheres or nebulae are generated individually, suggesting a single blurred motif, constantly recurring in a disturbing, addictive and simultaneously poetic way. Rhythm, gesture, stroke and experimentation of drawing with fine steel rods is the basis of this exploration from which arise small monochrome pieces with traces of delicacy and sensitivity.
A contemporary multidisciplinary artist with an international career; he began painting in his childhood and has worked in different techniques continuously since adolescence. He has exhibited globally in places like New York, New Delhi, Singapore, Korea, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Mallorca and Minorca among others. He lives and works between Mahon, Barcelona and New York. The infuence of the Internet is important in his evolution as well as his collaborations with other artists.
Dolo Navas Gorliz (Spain), 1966
www.dolonavas.com Born in the Basque Country, Dolo Navas currently lives in Catalonia. She is a visual artist, designer and educator whose work has revolved around recycling and nature for twenty years. She has received important awards such as the Gure Artea grants from the Council of Bizkaia, Bilbao Arte, Arteleku, and held numerous individual and group exhibitions. She has participated in Drap-Art’s recycling marathons in Barcelona, in the 90’s, in three editions of the Braderie de l’Art in Roubaix (France) and also in the 3 editions of the Restcycling Art Festival in Berlin. She is a member of the artist groups Reciclantes from Iruña and El Safareig from Ripoll.
Birds, 2015 Variable Bras and shirt collars
Thomas Nölle Soest (Germany), 1948 Christian Konn Neuss (Germany), 1965 CarlosJovellar, Barcelona (Spain), 1963
In the year 2000, the artist Thomas Nölle invited the designers Christian Konn and Carlos Jovellar to share his studio in correu vell street nr. 8. From this coexistence a series of works was born in which Nölle’s poetry -critical and nostalgic at once- is highlighted by Christian and Carlos’ technical know-how. Le Musée Mediterranée is the culmination of this collaboration. A group of pieces that aims to approach two central issues: the progressive reduction of the current “acquis” in the face of an increasing culture of waste; and the complex relationship between human beings, their technologies and nature, which manifests itself in the increasingly widespread environmental transformation process (Cousteau already presaged the “death” of the Mediterranean Sea). Le Musé Méditerranée. 3 Light Columns, 2000 40 x 40 x 178 cm (each) 3 columns with assemblage of diverse objects made out of wood, metal, paper, glass, stone, bone and an old TV set, including sme mechanisms that move parts of them
Yael Olave Santiago de Chile, 1973
www.yomisma-design.com She creates jewelry based on the combination of recycled and fine materials. What some discard, Yael retrieves, transforms, and gives another life and another name, appealing to the intuitive transformation of artificial discarded materials, keeping the traces of its previous use, the form and memory it provided us, while emphasizing the added value of hand crafted work. Here she presents a selection of South Colors (Fondart project): exclusive jewelry handmade from recycled objects. South speaks of a ‘young’ Hemisphere and makes a call to change our way of life, to make it more sustainable, yet modern, capturing the culture of our indigenous ancestors, adapting it to the daily life of our existence. Antarctic addresses climate change and the various disputes between countries for its territory and natural resources, which provoke an unethical struggle between those who want to get rich without scruples. Afrika reminds us of the thousands of conflicts and displacements caused by mining what have come to be known as ‘blood diamonds’. Antarctic 14,5 x 39 x 2 cm (necklace) 4,0x 3,5 x 4,0 cm. (ring) 4,0x 7,5 x2,0 cm (earrings) Discarded methacrylate from laser cuttings, PC components, recycled silver wire and sheet from mechanical processes Afrika / 14,5 x 37,5x 2 cm (necklace) 2,2 x 2,2 x 2,2 (ring) Colored electrical wires, copper sleeves, recycled silver wire and sheet from mechanical processes
South, 2013 17 x 40 x 3 cm Necklace made with PC components, printer cables, copper sleeves and silver threads
Imanol Ossa Zumaia (Spain), 1966
www.imanolossa.com Imanol Ossa studied interior design at the EINA School of Design and Art of Barcelona. In 1995 he began working in art, with the recycling of common objects and lighting as his main axis. He also likes to plays with cutlery, plates, cups; bicycle and battery parts. Here he presents two unique designer pieces made with piano keys and hammers and one with drum plates He maintains their original movement, to give them a certain musicality and plays with the memory of the material. The working process is entirely handcrafted, both the welding of the metal structure as well as the cleaning and the treatment of the keys with soap, to avoid aggressive processes on the wood.
Piano XL, 2013 / 68 x 68 x 40 cm Ceiling lamp made out of piano keys, steel plate structure, electrical wire and light bulb Medusa, 2013 / 35 x 35 x 22 cm Wall lamp made out of piano hammers, iron structure, silver dome and light bulb Splash, 2014 / 50 x 50 x 20 cm Lamp made out of drum plates
Buffalo, 2012 / 151 x 62 x 27 cm Recycled pieces of wooden furniture
Olinda, 2011 / 28 x 28 x 10 cm Collage of relief materials and found objects on wood
Eduard Palaus
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Barcelona (Spain), 1969
Belo Horizonte (Brasil), 1955
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Palaus is an artist, interior designer, contractor and restorer. He has participated in Drap-Art since 1997, sometimes with designer objects, sometimes with artworks, such as his creatures made out of wood and found objects. Here he presents a piece from a series of artworks that use old furniture to simulate animal horns.
This artist and tailor worked for many years in creating clothing and accessories and has developed several collections of “wearable art”. Currently, in addition to his artistic work, he is active in several fields: scenery, props and costumes for theater, dance, circus and carnival. He is also responsible for artistic training and the implementation of a system of income generation in ASMARE Cultural Association of paper, cardboard and waste material collectors from Belo Horizonte, a social project that rescues families at risk through creative recycling for more than a decade.
Klaus Pichler Vienna (Austria), 1977
www.kpic.at This photographer, raised in Judenburg / Steiermark, lives and works in Vienna. From 1996 to 2005 he studied Landscaping at the BOKU, Vienna. In 2006 he began to work as an autodidact photographer first for the press, but over time has come to focus on personal projects. Since 2010 he is represented by the Anzenberger Gallery in Vienna and Galerie Rockelmann & in Berlin. In 2012 the Guild of Photographers of Austria recognized him with the title of “professional photographer”. The One Third project presented here is based on a FAO study of 2011 which states that in western societies an average of 30% of the food is dumped. ONE THIRD A project about food waste 2011 - 2012 According to a UN study one third of the world’s food goes to waste - the largest part thereof in the industrialized nations of the global north. Equally, 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation. The series One Third describes the connection between individual wastage of food and globalized food production. Rotting food, arranged into elaborate still lifes, portrays an abstract picture of the wastage of food whilst the accompanying texts take a more in depth look at the roots of this issue. One Third goes past the sell by date in order to document the full dimensions of the global food waste. This project is dedicated to the workers of the global food industry.
Neus Relats Barcelona (Spain), 1959
Relats studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, School of Arts and Advanced Design at Pau Gargallo and the College of Art and Design Llotja, specializing in Sculpture. Currently she works on stone carvings under the direction of sculptor Mariano Andres Vilella. She has taken part in several exhibitions in Catalonia and was selected for the Francesc GalĂ Award 2007 of the Provincial Council of Barcelona with her piece Lignum. She won the First New Creation Prize 2010 with Waves. Cosmocircus is a tribute to the spirit of Calder: It refers to the circus, to the rising sun and the planetary system, includes some recycled objects, as he sometimes did, and the applied colours are reminiscent of those he used.
Cosmocircus, 2013 140 x 60 x 220 m Metal, bicycle parts
Toni Riera Lleida (Spain), 1974
ninotsdentonet.blogspot.com Toni has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Minorca, Barcelona and Lleida. He has also worked on the construction of theatre sets and shop window decoration. After ten years of salvaging material that washes up on the beaches of Minorca, he has abandoned the sea for the container. Riera is currently working on a new art project centered around the concept of recycling, but which looks in front of the container for waste materials – namely, for objects and curiosities in disuse, abandoned in the street or in markets or second hand stores; abandoned objects, which, having lost their function, will be part of a new piece with another story to tell. Síndrome después de una mala noticia o alopecia repentina!, 2014 59 x 20 x 10 cm / Installation of plate, images and human hair …de cuando Kitty se fue A Hong Kong! Sèrie Souvenirs!, 2014 59 x 15 x 10 cm / Installation of plate and objects ...vaya par de perras, Lassie!, 2014 59 x 22 x 15 cm / Installation of plate and objects ...don’t cry for my cocacola, bonita!, 2014 59 x 20 x 10 cm / Installation of plate and objects …Minorca is diferent Patricio! Sèrie Souvenirs!, 2014 59 x 30 x 10 cm / Installation of plate and objects
Quim Rifà Barcelona (Spain), 1974
www.quimrifa.net Quim made his first creative work at the Torello Carnival, creating costumes and participating in the sculpture competition drawing on materials from the trash market of the village. Later he studied sculpture at the Industrial School and Pau Gargallo School. He attended the sculpture workshops of Mariano Andrés Vilella and Frederic Gómez Cardella. In 2008 he took up residency in Berlin, where he started to experiment with recycled sculpture. When he returned to Catalonia, he participated two years running in Drap-Art Festival and in 2012 he won the Residu’Art Award in the category of Emerging Artist. He also participated in Drap-Art itinerant exhibition Nothing disappears, everything transforms, organized together with the Instituto Cervantes, in China and Japan. In 2015 Rifà collaborated with the müll collective and the ceramist Sergi Pahissa at the International Ceramics Festival, and exhibited at the Civic Centre Urgell, Palo Alto Market, Manlleu Art Gallery. R1, 2013 60 x 60 x 40 cm Hairdryer, typewriter, doll’s legs Bicho, 2015 40 x 30 x 20 cm Reassembled typewriter
Jorge RodrĂguez-Gerada Santa Clara (Cuba), 1966
www.jorgerodriguezgerada.com Jorge is mainly dedicated to the realization of large installations and actions in public space, generally with an environmental component. He also works in smaller formats with charcoal drawings on public walls, which he also removes from the walls and frames. This is the case of the two pieces he presents here, which are charcoal drawings on recycled wall fragments and wooden frames. The icons of today are selected by commercial trademarks based on aesthetic and economic patterns. The art object endeavours to show that the important thing is our life, the impact on the environment of each person, the heroic lives of thousands of workers who will never be famous or protagonists of anything. It is gratifying to create works of ordinary people and have their portrait becomes an icon, at least for a while. Fragment series June, 2015 / 55 x 43 cm Mixed media on recycled wall. JRG 6550 Franco, 2015 / 55 x 43 cm Mixed media on recycled wall. JRG 6555
Rubén Santurián Montevideo (Uruguay), 1962
www.santurian.com Raised in Argentina and currently living in Florida, USA, Ruben divides his time between numerous urban development projects and the design and artistic creation of recycling artworks. His appropriation of an aesthetic of the disposable led to an extensive production of paintings, murals and objects that have been exhibited in several shows. His work has been awarded first prize in the category “best use of recycled materials” in the Green Artist Challenge 2009, organized by Wyland Worldwide for the renowned international fair Artexpo New York. In 2014, Santurián began a new phase in which he creates and humanizes the Trashformers, a series that wants to portray the identity of a future from the reconstruction of life, renewal of identity and improving the environment.
Dumfante. Series Trashtoys, 2016 / 50 x 38 x 33 cm Metal and diverse trash materials TLassie II. Series Trashdogs, 2015 / 95 x 145 x 30 cm Metal and diverse trash materials The Maternity of Venus. Series Trashformers, 2014 120 x 120 x 41 cm Metal and diverse trash materials
Stephanie Senge Munich (Germany), 1972
www.stephaniesenge.de She has received various grants that took her to Italy, Japan, Austria and India. She was awarded the “Art for Consumption” Prize in Munich in 2001. She has held many solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group shows, imparted workshops and done performances. She has work in private and public collections. In 2015 she published the book Konsumidealismus, with occasion of her double exhibition in the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt and EDEKA Wendler, Ingolstadt, a culmination of her previous work on consumerism. Here Senge develops the Manifesto of Consumer Idealism, in which she advocates, amongst others, a new spiritual culture of consumption. Her concern with consumer society and spirituality has come a long way: in Japan Senge became a master in the Ikebana technique and in India she studied the rituals of the Mandalas. She uses both techniques, substituting the originally used natural elements with consumer goods, as she believes we should honor our products more, so they don’t turn into trash, in the same way as we admire, honour and enjoy the beauty of an Ikebana. Consumption Mandala for & from Pittsburgh, 2016 600 x 500 cm / Trash and consumer goods
HA Schult Parchim (DE), 1939
www.haschult.de He grew up among the rubble of bombed Berlin, and studied at the Arts Academy in DĂźsseldorf from 1958 to 1961. After living in Munich, New York, Berlin and Essen, he now lives in Cologne since 1992. In his first media sculptures he addresses the sociopolitical and ecological balance of our planet. In 1968, four years before the Club of Rome brought the theme of ecological imbalance into the media, he was already in the streets demanding respect for the environment. His works have been exhibited in all five continents and are part of the collections of numerous international museums and of public and private collections. He has participated in Documenta twice, in the 1972 and 1977 editions. Here, we present Trash Person, a sculpture generously donated to Drap-Art to the festival by the artist to contribute to its funding. Pyramids People, 2002 61 x 86 cm Print of photograph by Thomas Hoepker (Magnum) Trash Men, 2007 Video by Manuel Bozzo
Trash Person, 1996 172 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture made with all kinds of trash
Ramiro Sobral Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1972
www.elciclo.com Ramiro was born in Buenos Aires and lived great part of his life in Tucuman, Argentina. From an early age he was lucky to have a bicycle, the first of countless bikes. After living in different places he settled in Barcelona in 2007. Here he had different jobs, in which his vehicle was always the bicycle. In 2010 he traveled to Estepona, without a map but with two wheels. Then he started to fix bikes in his home and finally in 2013, he decided to open his bicycle shop, El Ciclo, in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. It is here that the idea of using the countless bicycle parts he had accumulated for a long time to decorate his business. He began to make lamps by combining parts of wheels. This is where he was motivated to recycle bicycle parts create his collection, Bicycles that saw the light.
Lluvia (Rain), 2016 125 x 65 x 65 cm Bicycle parts
SystemDesignStudio Barcelona, 2009
www.systemdesignstudio.com SystemDesignStudio was founded in 2009, in Barcelona, by the architect Helbert Suarez and the industrial designer Remi Melander. Its designs have been selected for events, such as the Interior Design, Vancouver, in 2009, Dwell on Design, in Los Angeles, 2010, Valencia Design Week, also in 2010, CasaDecor Barcelona, in 2010 and 2011, Milan Design Week, in 2012, London Design Festival, in 2012, Beijing Design Week, in 2013, and International New Media Art Festival, in Hong Kong, 2014. In the field of recycling SystemDesignStudio has received awards such as In-habitat Spring Greening Contest, in USA, in 2010, and was a finalist of the Recycling Design Prize, in Germany in 2010, and the Disseny per al Reciclatge Prize, awarded by the Waste Agency of Catalonia, in Barcelona, in 2009 and 2011.
MolÊculas, 2015 100 x 100 x 100 cm Modular three-dimensional structures made from recycled CD’s using digital fabrication techniques Got a light, 2010 10 x 55 x 50 cm Empty lighters inserted in an acrylic base
Steel, 2007-2008 Variable measurements Photograph of head wear of kitchen utensils Helmet, 2007-2008 Variable measurements Photograph headwear with helmets, motorbike mirrors and lights Rubber slippers, 2007-2008 Variable measurements Photograph of Headwear and shoulder decorations of slipper thongs
Little Shilpa Mumbai (India)
www.littleshilpa.com She works for international brands and participates habitually in the London Fashion Week, Paris and Milan Design Weeks, amongst others. Her personal work emulatesthe spirit of India today, verses on the contrast of past and present through portraits of the ordinary people and objects from the streets of Mumbay, that somehow define the city. In her words: “The spirit of the Mumbai Monster livesin small things: street toys, roadside clothes, pavement bookstores... This is a spirit of flux and fetish: crazily creative, instantly inventive, brazenly bizarre... In the screaming race through concrete and tar, metal and glass, maddening crowds and traffic snarls, it’s these little angels that compel you to live. These objectsof desire, full of lifeforce, seduce you like a sexy whore from under the bridge, behind the streetcorner, inside the subway... Pmped at the traffic signals and local trains, in parks and beaches... at throwaway prices, you give in, discarding your pretence and glowing with the Mumbai pride. These pieces are inspired by and created with little gems picked along my many wanderings through the city. These become the adornments of the goddesses of Mumbai – our protector angels. They are armour”. Here she presents some pieces from her series Mumbadevi Goddesses and Maps and Nagarantara.
Paper Cones, 2007-2008 Variable measurements Photograph of attire of paper cones
Jordi Torrent Barcelona (Spain), 1958
Jordi divides his time between Barcelona and Formentera. In addition to creative writing - he just published his first novel, entitled The Orphan of BoisanzĂłn-, he is interested in the interrelations of living beings and their environment. That is why he was co-director of the Posidonia Festival, dedicated to art and ecology, from 2010 to 2013, on the island of Formentera. He is also a founding member of Drap-Art and works as a visual creator with found materials. Here he presents a piece made from old furniture parts
MentirĂa si dijera‌., 2014 60 x 60,5 cm Pieces of old furniture
Irene Wölfl Krems (Austria), 1967
www.irenetrashart.wordpress.com Irene grew up in Lower Austria and graduated in 1984 from the College of Textile Industry in Groß Siegharts. In 1985 she was Assistant in art and graphic studios in Vienna and in Wienerwald. In 1989 she graduated from Vienna Federal Training and Research Institute of Graphic Arts and worked as a graphic designer in Vienna. In 2000 her constant creative occupation with the possibilities of recycling everyday articles culminated in a collection of bags, jackets, skirts and accessories that appeared under the label 196567. Since 2007 she has created artworks made out of waste materials. She has held solo and group exhibitions in Vienna and throughout Austria. Statement: “I have always found it exciting to use old, apparently useless waste products as raw materials. Apart from the fascination of giving new life to old things, there is, buried within this love of recycled materials, certainly an element of social criticism”.
Adèle, 2014 / 45 x 45 cm. Plastics Skyline Yellow, 2015 / 23 x 23 cm. Plastics Skyline Red, 2015 / 40 x 20 cm. Plastics Irgendwo, 2013 / 60 x 90 cm. Plastics
The Chinese Dream Nike, 2015 41 x 23 x 52 cm Mixed media on shoe box
Gao Yansong Yichun (China), 1972
He is a pioneer in the Chinese Rock and Roll scene as the lead singer of the band Wide Tip Shoes. Later, he opened the notorious Buzzing Bee bar in Beijing, frequented by many rockers and poets. After that, he changed scenes and started a new career as a young visual artist. He collects shoe boxes and other packaging containers to build a castle in the air that is mindless of its form. The obstacles and wonders of his work has qualities of traditional Chinese culture while transgressing ubiquitous contemporary technique, capturing the historical moment as a humble yet nuanced and magnificent river. Gao uses the postmodern artistic forms of “appropriation” and “reenactment”, as well as applying the ancient to the current moment, applying what is western in China, but he also transcends the dignified to the grass roots; marginalizes more, humanizes the absurd. Gao Yansong’s other series consist of a series of photographs of his packaging installation in natural environments in order to present a surreal scene. The Chinese Dream Macys, 2016 32 x 22 x 43 cm Mixed media on shoe box
Drap-Art Exhibition Team Management: Karol Bergeret
Graphic Design and video: María Paz Montecinos
Curator: Tanja Grass
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