Video: Portraits by artist Zac Freeman: the new meaning of "trash art"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Detailed images of people created by an American artist Zac Freeman, can not be called low-quality: but if you look closely, it becomes clear that they, like a mosaic, are assembled from the real "trash" - everyday household rubbish, like fragments of combs and torn off buttons.
Freeman's "trash" portraits, despite the dubious source material, are remarkable for their amazing attention to detail and even some psychology. Unlike many representatives of contemporary art, Freeman is the last to appeal to the problems of environmental pollution and ecology. The protagonist of his works is not a problematic society as a whole, but a very specific person.
To create each portrait, Freeman glues scraps and scraps of household waste to a wooden canvas. It takes more than one hour of painstaking work, but the artist's palette is amazingly rich - more precisely, it is replaced by a box with construction waste or a kitchen with traces of yesterday's spree.
Using household waste as a raw material for creating an art object is a fairly popular idea. Nigerians collect their tapestries from bottle caps Al Anatsui, and the installation is made of plastic waste Pascal Martin Teilu is a good ten meters high. The unique difference between Zach Freeman and their colleagues in "trash-art" is that he observes quite traditional pictorial canons, thus making his initial objects a means, and not an end in itself. All the rubbish from which human faces are born in the artist's hands, according to Freeman himself, "acts as a bearer of unique energy," and the final work can be considered a kind of "time capsules in which the entire world culture is reflected."
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