The exhibition dedicated to recycled plastic
Artist* da tutta Europa si sono incontrati con artigian* del territorio per creare opere d'arte dai rifiuti plastici. Sei mesi di lavoro, a distanza per via della pandemia, hanno portato ad allestire la mostra di Plasticart.
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Charraro - Chabarik
The faces
Imagining a current life without plastic is utopistic, it is now indispensable for us and is part of our daily life. But it is a duty to use it better and to keep it under control: we cannot afford to become completely plastic, waterproof and intolerant to what surrounds us.
To express this concept we've chosen to continue a research on three-dimensional mosaic started by Mohamed with a series of multi-material sculptures of large faces. The challenge was to create an unusual material for the mosaic: plastic. The tesserae were made with PP05, melted and pressed into small plates thin enough to be cut into different formats, then glued to the concrete base with an effect that made them just "emerge" from the skin.
Jana Horalkova
Self-growing spiral
There are several basic rules according to which an infinite number of forms grow by themselves.Many shapes use the spiral principle to grow. The spiral growth is also inspiration for the exhibited piece. The sculpture was designed and its shape was created thanks to the great diversity of forms of nature which brings unrestricted inspiration for art, science and other fields. Thanks to the collaboration with Cas´Aupa it was technically possible to use recycled plastic as a material for the sculpture. The choice of recycled plastic in combination with the structure designed by nature creates the connection between the human world full of plastic products and the natural world that we must protect.
Eleni Aidonidou
Untitled
With this current project, she wants to express a symbiosis between art and sustainability, primarily focusing on the life circle of plastic and the impact that it will have on our already imperiled future. She has always been interested in land art. So she decided to take the opportunity to show her work in an actual landscape. The piece presented by Eleni has embedded in it the symbolism of transformation and reimagination of matter.
This idea manifests itself in an abstract way in the work, both spatially and chromatically
For the process of manufacturing the pieces, the colors selected were blue and green since they are the most abounding colors to stumble upon in recycled materials.The processed plastic follows a path in which its morphology and texture are melting and reforming. This is received and reinterpreted as a transformation that takes place when something new is being born. This process resembles a renaissance of matter. This symbolic renaissance or resurrection of the material, in this case, the plastic, is in the process of burning and regeneration, in a new, safe, and productive way. Eleni has attempted to capture this process and has narrated it in the piece itself.
Tommaso Sandri
Crevadure
By breaking apart, the ceramic take new life through the fracture lines to the object, which becomes even more valuable. Thanks to his scars.
The art of embracing damage, of not being ashamed of wounds, is the delicate symbolic lesson suggested by the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi.
It is using this technique that "Crevadure", a crack in the Friulian language, was created, in which a classic cracked brick is fixed with fragments of recycled plastic made with Cas'Aupa machines.
A work symbolically strong in wich the wound is healed, the crack becomes enrichment. in cui la ferita viene rimarginata, la crepa diventa ricchezza.
Giovanna Bressan
Untitled
The idea was to be able to create different shapes and thus create a work that can be reproduced in series nella forma ma sempre in his form but always different in his shades. because it is entrusted to the unpredictability of plastic combinations. To do this it was necessary to suffer from a mold whose creation then underwent several changes.
I then wanted to experiment the fusion of plastic flakes in a freer way, under a heat press, an action that gave birth to the series of two-dimensional body shapes.
These shapes are generated in a semi-random way,by pressing the scales are arranged in a weighted way so that the image is close to that of a human figure, the rest is generated by the heat press that crushes and melts the plastic generating the final shape.
Giovanna Bressan
Untitled
I focused on experimenting with the fusion of plastic through the use of an iron, creating combinations that are reminiscent of printing or painting. The practice in question is quite simple, the plastic bags (often deriving from food packaging) must be collected and divided into the types of plastic to which they belong, and combined according to one's personal taste, a composition that will then be crystallized by the passage of iron from ironing and then from the heat.
Arcangelo Costanzo
Untitled
My artistic research is configured through an eclectic and multifaceted set of materials, mediums and thoughts. These branch out into a plurality of practices and experiences, many of which are alter ego based, where my being and doing more personal enter into friction, deviance and resonance through collaborations, contaminations and sometimes even self-cancellations.
This configuration was formed along the way and is becoming more and more systematic. It meets the existential and social needs of an era characterized by intersubjective collaborative work and is at the same time constituted as a need to intensify discourses and personal relationships, in a life-work time with boundaries (especially in artistic research) continuous breakthrough.
On the other hand, this practice, through an exasperation and radicalization of the same attitudes (collab.-contam.- abnegation), poses itself as a collapse, parody and paradox in favor of an incompressible self, and aims at the greatest possible freedom of expression beyond / through the narrowness of brand, signature and identity.
Federico Comuzzo
Tradition must dialogue with plastic
A famosu chair, the Impagliata, with its unmistakable shape, launches a thought into the supply chain of industrial furniture production.
The dialogue between industrial producers and companies in the separate collection chain is apparently non-existent. Why aren't innovative products based on tradition made, re-using waste materials?
Julian Janko
Il puzzle italiano
I chose the first project to demonstrate that you can make great minimalist objects from recycled plastic.
Il "puzzle italiano" può essere disegnato in diverse varianti e colori e può essere applicato come una scultura sul pavimento o appeso al muro in una cornice. Mi sono ispirato a vari modelli e al lato giocoso del mio bambino interiore. Quindi mi è diventato subito chiaro come creare una combinazione di design e giocosità.
Julian Janko
Untitled
For the lamps I've decided to combine two different materials. The two materials are concrete and plastic. Thin plastic plates are very suitable for reducing the light source. This creates a pleasant light in the room. For both projects I focused on the color of the flag of Italy. Both projects harmonize with each other and become a global project.
Artigian*
Cristina Regazzo | SezioneErre
I was born in Friuli in 1990, a land that with its traditions and inspiration has raised me and made me evolve. After the qualification as a Mosaic Master at the Mosaic School of Friuli, the desire to expand my knowledge in the artistic field increased, thus taking me to Florence to follow courses in goldsmithing and wax modeling. Later, in 2019, Section R was officially born, a small laboratory where mosaics and goldsmiths meet, where the jewel is born from textile techniques, where the contemporary jewel travels together with the classic, where research and experimentation is in continuous evolution.
Marco Bressan | OzLab
The vocation of "park creator" was born with him: ever since he was a child he dreamed of undertaking this magical profession. After the artistic high school he graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, with a design and innovative thesis on Theme Parks. Numerous collaborations, in particular as a designer and sculptor with well-known Italian and foreign amusement parks and an experience as a painter for Walt Disney Attractions in Florida, which selects him from over 400 candidates. In 1999 he founded the Ozlab Funfactory, and since then he has dedicated himself to the design and construction of attractions and scenographies for the amusement and theme parks sector, bringing into play different skills ranging from ideation to drawing, from comics to realistic illustration. , to architectural drawing; from scale modeling to large sculptures up to the direction and execution of the works on site.
Simona Martino | ScartaCollective
Following decades of experience as an architect in international architecture and design studios, in 2013 she started a collaboration with the Montessori Italy Foundation as a trainer on the issues of the Montessori environment and the relationship between architecture and pedagogy in learning spaces. In 2015 he founded Craftabile Srl, an artisan company that produces Montessori Craft branded educational materials and design objects with digital manufacturing technologies. Together with other partners he founded Lino's & Co. Bottega di Udine in 2016.
Artist*
Arcangelo Costanzo
My artistic research is configured through an eclectic and multifaceted set of materials, mediums and thoughts. These branch out into a plurality of practices and experiences, many of which are alter ego based, where my being and doing more personal enter into friction, deviance and resonance through collaborations, contaminations and sometimes even self-cancellations.
This configuration was formed along the way and is becoming more and more systematic. It meets the existential and social needs of an era characterized by intersubjective collaborative work and is at the same time constituted as a need to intensify discourses and personal relationships, in a life-work time with boundaries (especially in artistic research) and in continuous breakthrough.
Mohamed Chabarik
I was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1978. I have always expressed myself by drawing, I like to work with my hands, looking for technical and material solutions. The encounter with the mosaic marked a privileged groove in which to bring all this together, and it has become a way of telling.
Laura Charraro
I was born near Venice in 1984. After graduating in Literature at Ca 'Foscari, with a thesis in Contemporary Art Criticism, I discovered the mosaic, congenial to my way of being. I think that the concept of mosaic can be used in experimental contexts, both artistic and cultural.
Eleni Aidonidou
Ho 22 anni,
Attualmente sto studiando Belle Arti alla scuola di Atene, Grecia.
I miei interessi nell’arte si focalizzano sui problemi sociali e sulle esperienze personali.
Prendo anche ispirazione dalle cose comuni e dagli oggetti, durante la mia quarantena nel mio appartamento di 7 metri quadri.
Federico Comuzzo
Interested in the design and furnishing of small architectures, in temporary installations for special events.
My way of working is linked to an alternative approach to problems. Problems are possibilities, by varying the point of view you can arrive at unique solutions that answer the questions posed.
Quality and not quantity. I believe in ideas. Dynamic, fast, slow, material, intangible ideas. If you can imagine it, it can be realized.
Giovanna Bressan
I'm Giovanna, I like the shapes that female bodies take and for many years I have made them emerge from the paper or materials with which I like to relate; without realizing it, my practice has become a collection of bodies that, in a morbid way, continue to generate themselves.
Jana Horalkova
Mi chiamo Jana Horalkova. Sono nata e vivo in Repubblica Ceca. Il mio settore artistico è quello della scultura. Sono attratta dalle forme biomorfiche, imparo dall’architettura della natura, le sue strutture che non possiamo osservare ad occhio nudo. Sono interessata a come queste strutture si sviluppino, sia negli oggetti viventi che in quelli inanimati. Questo ispira fortemente la mia arte. Negli ultimi due anni mi sono focalizzata maggiormente su sculture “regolari”, con il progetto di migliorare in alcune tecniche e s oprire come lavorare con certi specifici materiali.
Julian Janko
Sono nato nel 1992 a Vienna. Ho studiato tecnologia della plastica nel 2011 al TGM (Technisches Gewerbe Museum), una scuola tecnica di Vienna.
Da quando ho ricordo esprimo i miei sentimenti attraverso diversi materiali. Sia all’asilo, tramite i Lego, sia a casa con una penna e foglio di carta. Sono sempre stato entusiasta di creare.
Negli ultimi anni, prima del COVID, ho viaggiato in tanti luoghi bellissimi in giro per il globo. Durante questi viaggi ho visto di persona l’inquinamento causato dalla plastica. Cosi ho cominciato il mio progetto di raccolta della plastica, decidendo di lavorare con essa.
Tommaso Sandri
Tommaso Sandri (1992) was born and raised in Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD) and from an early age he expressed a certain attitude towards art and travel. As soon as he graduates, he chooses to undertake an exploratory experience in Brazil, introspective or otherwise, in which, between voluntary work and slow wandering between rural and indigenous communities, he discovers the social function that art can have. Back in Italy, in 2012 he founded the collective Menti Libere, which aims to use art as a means of aggregation and social action.
In the following years he carried out participatory urban art projects using various languages and involving sections of the population usually marginalized both in Italy and abroad. In the same period he begins with the Ass. Free minds to carry out participatory urban redevelopment projects in the Friulian territory involving students and young people in difficulty. In 2015 he created the project MigrArtewith two friends, a three-month journey back on the Balkan route, from Friuli to the Turkish-Syrian border, where up close, each of its hotspots.
Quali sono i partner di progetto?
Bloom
Menti Libere
Associazione Fablab Udine
Società Cooperativa Puntozero