Video: Don't throw away plastic bags, they can become paintings. Huang Xu Photographic Prints
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The October Gallery in London is currently exhibiting artwork by the Chinese contemporary artist Huang Xu. A series of works called "Fragment" represents ordinary aesthetically designed plastic bags on a contrasting black background.
The collected torn plastic bags were digitally modified using 3D scanner techniques often used by archaeologists. The resulting photographic prints by artist Huang Xu are a series of ethereal, airy and sophisticated huge paintings that explore the fragile nature of today's global economy. Evoking an aesthetic sense of something high, Huang Xu's photographic prints symbolize a static depiction of decay and decay in the maelstrom of economic change.
Huang Xu's large-format paintings of used plastic bags are a talking metaphor for the waste of our society. A Chinese artist explores the problem of environmental pollution from plastic and polyethylene products. On average, about 3 billion plastic waste is used in China every day, many of which end up in landfills, littering cities and villages.
It is worth mentioning that Huang Xu's textured, luminous prints also visually remind us of fine silk. This textile industry was extremely developed during the time of Imperial China. Chinese silk was highly prized and exported and sold throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. These historical facts ironically show us the balance of economic power: just as China used to bring silk to Western countries, the West now supplies plastic bags to China.
Huang Xu was born in Beijing in 1968. The talented artist holds exhibitions in Australia and China, and works as a professional artist in Beijing.
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