Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira created this installation entitled Transarquitetônica at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo.
Artist Gilles Cenazandotti collects plastic debris washed ashore and creates a bestiary of recycled waste animals.
Cenazandotti:
"Impressed by everything that the Sea, in turn, rejects and transforms, on the beaches I harvest the products derived from petroleum and its industry. The choice of animals that are part of the endangered species completes this process. In covering these animals with a new skin harvested from the banks of the Sea, I hope to draw attention to this possible metamorphosis - to create a trompe l'oeil of a modified reality."
These animal sculptures made from found objects by Geoffrey Gorman have a lot of the steampunk ghoulish charm of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey.
Artist Jerry Bleem uses found materials and thousands and thousands of staples which give them organic looking forms structure and hold them together.
"Ordinary, non-precious, discarded materials are what I most often use in my work. Botanic forms and the human body have strongly influenced my work. I also draw upon humanity's long history of making containers for both practical and symbolic purposes."
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Johannesburg-based street artist R1 creates beauty using found materials: tape, cans, plastic.
R1 says:
"My installations subtly changes the city streets to create a dialogue and interactions between the environment and our experience of it. The artworks take ownership and manipulate city spaces, opening new relationships with daily familiarity. The end result carries conversations, becoming a fragment of the ever changing city’s history."
