Video: An army of garbage. Art project of HA Schult
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is generally accepted that the commander-in-chief of any army is the head of state. German artist HA Schult has not yet become president, but he already has his own army. True, it numbers only a thousand people, but it has served him faithfully for more than ten years. There is only one oddity in this whole story: these soldiers are not alive, they are made of garbage.
The Trash People (or Schrottarmee in German) is a large-scale art project by HA Schult. An army entirely composed of garbage appears regularly in various places on our planet. Every year, the author chooses a new place and lines up his soldiers there in even ranks. Despite being an army, its intentions are friendly but unshakable.
What does the author want to say with his project? In principle, everything is simple. People made up of cans, electronic debris and other rubbish are critical representations of our society today. And we are talking not only about the problems of pollution of the planet, everything is much deeper and more serious. “We create garbage, are born out of garbage, and someday we will become garbage ourselves” - this expression has long become something like a trademark phrase of HA Schult.
HA Schult does not consider the use of garbage in their projects as something unworthy and shameful. He notes that nowadays artists are more free than ever in the choice of materials for creativity. “Over the past three decades, everyday objects have had an ever stronger influence on art, and art has begun to respond to everyday problems faster and faster. At no other time has there been such a close dialogue between art and everyday life."
The Trash People project was launched in 1996 in the German city of Xanten. At the same time, the author had the idea to travel with his army around the world. Since then, garbage soldiers can be seen in Moscow and Paris (1999), on the Great Wall of China (2001), next to the Egyptian pyramids (2002), in the Swiss castle of Kilkenny (2003), Brussels (2005), Cologne (2006)), Rome and Barcelona (2007), New York (2008). This year, a strange army has landed among the ice of Antarctica.
HA Schult was born in 1939. In the 1960s, he began to create public art installations using rubbish.
Recommended:
Sculptures from bicycle parts. PART Project charity art project from SRAM
The manufacturer of spare parts and components for bicycles, the Chicago-based company SRAM, organized a charity festival-auction pART Project for everyone. This project is an exhibition and sale of amazing sculptures made of bicycle parts provided by SRAM to each participant of the event
Stunning Garbage Sculptures by Leo Sewell
American Leo Sewell cannot even calculate how many times in the past fifty years he has walked around the landfills of his hometown and how many tons of garbage have passed through his hands. Not the most pleasant, and for some it is completely unacceptable occupation, but for Leo this is just part of the job. No, our today's hero is not a garbage sorter, but a sculptor who creates his works exclusively from unnecessary and discarded trash
Art against garbage: sculptures from trash found on the shore
“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
Garbage art. Molly B. Right mosaic paintings laid out from bottle caps
What to do with caps for lemonade, beer, mineral water and other drinks that are sold in glass bottles? Of course, throw it away, everyone will say … Everyone except the American artist named Molly B. Right. For her, multi-colored bottle caps are like paints, crayons, pencils and markers to other artists. Molly creates amazing mosaic paintings from this useless rubbish
Animals and birds from metal waste. "Garbage Art" by Barbara Franc
Throwing away the trash and cleaning up is usually boring, albeit necessary. Therefore, creative people come up with how to diversify it, including their imagination at full capacity. Some paint portraits from trash, build installations, make insects from parts of broken household appliances. And British artist Barbara Franc creates cute animal and bird sculptures from wires, wire and recycled metal