Video: Cornucopia: Wang Zhiyuan's art object for the protection of the environment
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chinese artist and installation author Wang Zhiyuan has created an art object with an environmental theme. An 11-meter tornado made of plastic bottles wanders the planet, encompassing art galleries and other "hotbeds of culture" with high ceilings: not every hall can accommodate such a colossus. However, no particular destruction has yet to be seen: environmental problems are not a new topic, and visitors to the exhibitions will be surprised for ten minutes, and they will disperse.
Wang Zhiyuan, who lives in Beijing, certainly wants his art to become socially important and useful: "If it is not so, I will feel guilty." Well, not only in Russia a poet is more than a poet, and an artist is more than an artist. Let's remember with a kind word and a Madrid hotel, decorated with rubbish, and an unusual flash mob in Canada, and lace vases by a British craftswoman.
During his life, 53-year-old Wang Zhiyuan managed to see and try a lot: he studied painting and sculpture, in his youth felt the strong influence (if not pressure) of socialist realism and revised his artistic method in maturity, emigrated to Australia, but returned to his homeland again.
Now he has come to the conclusion that all people need art. The greater the reach of the audience, the sooner our world will change for the better. And in order to expand the "staff" of connoisseurs of beauty, creativity must be understandable.
In the spirit of his views, Wang Zhiyuan created an installation with an unpretentious message: it is better to let rubbish be an art object in galleries and exhibition halls, or even a museum rarity, but not lying around in the streets and not forming ugly dumps.
When Wang Zhiyuan began collecting orphan containers in Beijing landfills, he doubted that he would be able to create something worthwhile out of the garbage. But then I realized that art begins where the sum just changes from the rearrangement of the terms. Having started to arrange bottles to his taste, the author of the installation got so carried away that he raised a huge plastic mountain.
11 meters of plastic containers from Beijing landfills are impressive at least in size. Whether the artistic value of a tornado is so great - time will judge. But the good news is that there is less garbage and more art in the world.
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