c h l o r o p h y l l a *

(art + sustainability)

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Eduardo Srur, The Dead Aquarium, Fishing net, nylon string, solid waste collected from the beaches, Acqua Mundo, Guaruja, Brazil | 2014

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Eduardo Srur, PETS, vinyl, motorized inflator pump, floating platform, anchorage, wire rope, electric wiring and cables with fluorescent lamps, 10 x 3.5 m each (20 pieces), Concrete banks of the Tietê River, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008

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Eduardo Srur, Labyrinth, 400 blocks of recyclable rubbish, including plastic bottles, cups and packaging, cardboard, tin cans, steel wire and plastic mirror, 20 x 20 x 2.30 m, Public parks in São Paulo, Brazil | 2012

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rfmmsd:

Artist & Sculptor:

Bartek Elsner

"The Heart"

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actegratuit:

Riitta Päiväläinen

Vestige - Series

"Unwritten history, memory, landscape"

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myampgoesto11: Microscopic images of plants by Fernan Federici

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Anya Gallaccio - Intensities and Surfaces (1996) - Wapping Pumping Station, London

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Motoi Yamamoto

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I decided to take a train to see the El Anatsui show at the Brooklyn Museum today and holy shit was I glad I did. For those who don’t know El Anatsui, I highly suggest you look him up, but in short - those sculptures/installations are made out of the 1” x 3” pieces of aluminum from liquor caps.

Look at the pictures and let that sink in.

The metal pieces flow like cloth and move like ripples in the water as the circulation vents gently make them tremble - just enough for the light to catch them. It was absolutely breathtaking.

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Mosaic of an aerial photograph of Johannesburg, South Africa by Gerhard Marx 

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Altered Books and Sculptural Artist’s Books by Curt Lund

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Zoe Miller and David Goodman

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ranlatelate via jewelsallaround

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"By un-doing a building there are many aspects of the social condition against which I am gesturing: to open a state of enclosure which had been preconditioned not only by physical necessity but by the industry that profligates suburban and urban boxes as a context for insuring a passive, isolated consumer—a virtually captive audience."   __Gordon Matta-Clark (Antwerp, September 1977)

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Adeela Suleman’s Secrets from the Kitchen 

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republicx:

SEAT ll Installation by E/B Office 

SEAT is composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a sine wave surface drawn into an agitated vortex rising from the ground. It formalizes the transformation of chairs from detached usable objects into structural and spatial components of an ambiguously occupiable edifice. It’s intended to be legible and readable as a collection of individual seats, but when approached, visitors realize that sitting down in any one of them amounts to a deliberate act of occupation one can’t take for granted as usual; a temporary social contract to redefine their perception of sitting embodied as architecture.

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intogold:

Photos: 2011 Cheng Long Wetlands International Art Project.

In the small villages around the Cheng Long Wetlands in Taiwan’s poorest county, people make what living they can from fish farms and agriculture, though most young people these days leave to seek employment elsewhere. In this remote and little-known place, however, something is growing: Engagement with environmental issues is on the rise thanks in part to a community-based program that seeks to draw attention to the importance of the wetlands by turning them into a “gallery” for ecofriendly art.

Read more…

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bhmsustain:

     Art is not limited to posh designers and studios. This is especially true on the subject of ecological art. Deep in the Cheng Long wetlands in Taiwan, villagers and artists have taken to constructing installations using found materials such as bamboo, driftwood, wetland grasses, etc. Villages in this area depend largely on fishing as a way of life, but the gradual shrinking of the wetlands makes this increasingly difficult. The creators’ sculptures are a way to bring awareness to this issue without harming the environment. 

     With such an expansive area to cover, the installations needed to be large. One artist used branches and twigs to create more than 30 “nests” suspended on bamboo throughout the area. Another artist combined construction and horticulture to create a series of “flying boat gardens”. 

     The purpose and intent of these works sends an environmental message from a very unlikely source, while the ingenuity and creativity add aesthetic brilliance to the landscape. The size and expansiveness of the works and the group of artists is also impressive. 

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                                                            Source:

Haddam, Jennifer. “Artists Turn Taiwan Wetland Into Ecofriendly Gallery.” TreeHugger. N.p., 03 June 2011. Web. 20 Jan. 2013.

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/artists-turn-taiwan-wetland-into-ecofriendly-gallery.html