Video: New life for old bicycles. Post-industrial work by Victor Sonna
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Netherlands - country cycling … There are a huge number of them, and therefore it is quite logical that over time, a noticeable amount of bicycle debris appears in this state. Here are the old, abandoned two-wheelers and the artist collects Victor Sonna in order to turn them into works of contemporary art.
It seems that modern artists have seriously discovered old bicycles as a material for creativity. For example, Regan Appleton has been running the Bicycle Taxidermy project for several years now, in which he tries to represent these two-wheeled vehicles in the form of hunting trophies. But Victor Sonna turns old bike bikes into very unusual openwork works of art.
All over the world there are craftsmen who collect old cars in landfills and carefully restore them, turning them into something new and beautiful. The Dutch artist Victor Sonna lives about the same occupation, but with his own, Dutch specifics.
Indeed, in the Netherlands, bicycles are much more common than cars. Actually, he reconstructs this particular type of transport.
Victor Sonna finds old bicycles in landfills, which are in completely different states, and collects something completely new from what he finds. He makes original means of transportation out of garbage and scrap metal, the place of which is more likely in museums, and not on bike paths.
Victor Sonna himself explains the meaning of these creative experiments: “Modern society is accustomed to quickly getting rid of what it no longer needs. After all, why think about how to use old things with sense, if you can throw them away and buy new ones. I treat used things with great reverence. I do not understand how you can send a bicycle to a landfill, with which you have so many positive memories. Therefore, I give these vehicles the right to a new, more wonderful life."
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