Artists Ap Verheggen and Nasser Azam work independently, but their latest works have a common undercurrent, the climate. Work of these artists uses weather as an addition, making a profound impact on the outcome. Verheggen lives in Holland and has finished the first in line of four sculptures. Each of these sculptures would be placed in areas experiencing extreme climate change, and the first one has been placed on an iceberg in Greenland.
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Nature is full of colors, be it plain or vivid, it’s all there. Artist Norm Magnusson however, has found his skill in adding colors, or decoration to nature. While the idea of “decorating nature” is ambiguous and may well be termed an exercise in futility, it still seems to be a bit interesting and it does make for some intriguing pictures.
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Finnish artist Ilkka Halso takes a view of the “journey” of nature, from a self sustained process to something which has to be protected now. And his art does carry forward the message in a very thought provocative manner. The central theme of his “Restoration” series is healing and rescuing our natural environment.
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Supermarkets everywhere through out a lot of cardboard boxes every day. So, finding “raw material” could not have been a problem for artist/ designer Florian Pugnaire. His artwork titled “freeway storage” uses these discarded cardboard boxes as the building material, and transforms those discarded boxes into the iconic shape of a Lamborghini.
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Sculptor Kris Kuksi’s excellence makes itself evident with these sculptures. Amazing as they look, they are in fact upcycled examples of old, discarded toys. The sculptor uses discarded toys to create these haunting sculptures that carry a medieval-ancient look.

Old toys do make a major part of the sculptures, but the artist also uses other items like statues, mechanical part, or other discarded items he can put to use.

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On show recently at Designers & Agents Green Room, Aurora Robson’s unique artwork has been a refreshing combination of intricate patterns and colours. Her work uses recycled materials that are stylishly highlighted with solar-powered LEDs.

Aurora Robson, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a contemporary artist who works with installations, works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, photography, and performance art. She would like to describe herself as being primarily a sculptor.

For her recent show at Designers & Agents Green Room, Aurora made use of about 20,000 plastic bottles from the landfill. She uses recycled materials in her works of art to such an extent where she enjoys receiving junk mail because “it gives her new material to create her work.”

“The language and costly graphic devices and fancy printing used in junk mail gives it a persuasive, positive and personal flavour, making it great fodder for my work. My practice is ultimately about recognising and embracing new possibilities and displays and encouraging others to do the same,” she said.

Some of Aurora Robson’s outstanding pieces of art included works involving plastic bottles carved, cut and twisted into what one critic described as “romantic, unrecognizable forms.”

In short, like all good artists using recycled materials as their medium, Aurora Robson transforms the trash into things of beauty shrouded in mystery.

Quite inspiring, isn’t it?

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If you’ve been wondering what to do with all those paper rolls, pizza boxes or shopping bags instead of recycling them the old fashion way, Japanese Yuken Teryua has a brilliant solution. An elegant and highly attractive collection of recycled materials that has been turned into eco-art. Yuken seems like a gifted artist with a vision, that finds beauty in the ordinary. That toilet paper rolls tree that could hang delicately in any contemporary home or the bag tree with the green light are definitely our favorite. An amazing mix of functionality and awareness. No? [via booooooom]

A calabash is an annual vine with white flowers and a smooth, large, hard-shelled gourd. It is also called bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd. What’s more, the little fellow can be molded and shaped into volleyballs, Buddhas and gargoyle heads…among other things.

I am not sure I get this. But, a grower in Lanzhou, the capital of China’s Gansu province used a biotechnology technique to cultivate various shapes from the calabash, turning the gourd into an artwork. Yeah, but what does it taste like?

“Hey can I have an ear?”

“No you get to eat the belly of the Buddha.”

GP is for using biotechnology to make the most of the plants and food supplies that the Earth can generate, but turning food into art. Perhaps some people just have too much time on their hands.

What do you think?