Video: Art against garbage: sculptures from trash found on the shore
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“Beware, eccentric artist,” reads a sign on the gate of Marc Olivier, the man who sculpts from rubbish and puts on exhibitions on his own lawn. An artistic garbage man from California began making crafts from what was washed ashore 6 years ago. The American fights against garbage with pleasure, invention and a sense of humor, although he does not seek to amaze humanity with an original environmental message.
American Mark Olivier has lived near the beach for 26 years and has long chosen a place on the coast where you can walk your dog. During his walks, he often complained about the local authorities, who were completely indifferent to what kind of dump the once picturesque places had turned into. "And why doesn't anyone put things in order here?" - the American was angry. Until it suddenly dawned on him.
And really, who, if not me, will fight against garbage? Marc Olivier got to know heaps of junk better, and then began to pick up "seafood" and make crafts out of them. Samurai weapons, shaman masks, huge toys, an installation of 57 helmets on a tree - what is there in his thrash collection! And on the path to the house there is always material for future art achievements: ropes, pieces of plastic, hats will always come in handy.
Installation materials are most often used in their original form, in which they came out of the sea foam, although occasionally the master can tint something. Marc Olivier says that his hobby has no deep meaning, and the author did not want to say anything with his works: “Too many people now want to tell the world something, but in reality everything is limited to standard stickers on the bumper of a car”.
The Sculptor Against Debris says viewers' reviews of his work have been consistently positive. Still, who wants to quarrel with a neighbor? On the contrary, the residents of the neighboring houses kindly agree to shelter the work of the scavenger-sculptor, because there is no longer enough space in his courtyard. So the work of Marc Olivier is slowly but surely conquering the world.
The self-taught sculptor's garbage works are periodically sold. At the moment, the record is 1.5 thousand dollars per exhibit. And for a one and a half meter blue poodle, the author hopes to help out 5, 5 thousand green ones. Not to say that trash sculpture was a gold mine, but even after the volunteers remove trash from the coast, Marc Olivier finds something to profit from and confidently claims that there is enough trash on the ground for everyone.
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