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Books as creative material, apart from the narrative format we attribute to them as readers, can offer endless creative and plastic expressions, adopting in this way another narrative role.

Resulting in many and varied ways of representing the same reality, the photographer and artist Guy Laramee, is an expert in capturing the essence of the landscapes he has the opportunity to visit.

After photographing them, he locks himself in his studio and creates these surreal reproductions. The natural and architectural landscapes represented in these models belong to the Biblios and The Great Wall series.

READ IT IN SPANISH: El artista Guy Laramee recicla libros convirtiéndolo en paisajes

They are sculptural works that reproduce landscapes carved in old books, in which no detail is missing. Revealing serene mountains, plateaus and architectural structures, which are integrated into these natural environments without altering them.

The interventions and installations of Slovenian artist Matej Andraz Vogrinčič, are characterized by three aspects that can be observed throughout his long career.

The first has to relate to his treatment of space and its relationship with architecture. Because of this approach he almost always selects monumental buildings, many of them in a state of ruin, as scenarios. Whose structure turns them into hosts where objects are hosted, modifying their original identity and uses.

The second is related to the first, and cannot be dissociated from it, and has to do with the massive effect of his proposals and the uniform disposition he uses to place the objects in space. Almost in all cases applying a homogeneous pattern that creates the impression of community and strength through unity.

Whose purpose is to establish a dialogue with it and how we contemplate it according to the criteria and the position we adopt as observers in a flexible environment in constant change. As is undoubtedly all the elements that make up a natural landscape.

CREATING NATURAL PATTERNS FROM OBJECTS

And the third has to do with its nomadic condition and its ability to adapt its aesthetic vision to any type of environment while preserving its essence from the viewer's point of view. Whether in the middle of an Australian desert, among the remains of an abandoned church in England, or in climates as extreme as those experienced in the Siberian tundra.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Matej Andraz Vogrinčič, tranformación y paisaje desde una óptica reciclada

Matej methodically and without altering anything but the accessories of his execution process, completes each installation with reference to elements that he considers to be part of the local culture, acting accordingly on the territory, without altering it and causing the least environmental impact.

For the basic materials he uses are waste materials that after selecting them based on different basic criteria such as shape, color or texture, he catalogs and stores them for possible projects. Whose theme can be included within the current of abstraction.

Matej's works reflect on the possibilities of the landscape and its aesthetic performance, in a context where the presence of human beings subdues it, stripping it of its natural texture.

It is no coincidence that his personal reference in the history of art is Ben Vautier, an Italian-French avant-garde artist whose profile and polemic statements in favor of multi-culturalism and artistic practice beyond the established canons of beauty and academic orthodoxy. They have influenced her artistic practice where aesthetically she seems to be dominated by an ordered chaos.

Pending patent for its manufacture, the Cardboard Bike is a design that combines craftsmanship and recycling, as basic principles, to offer a customizable product at a ridiculous price. According to its creator Izhar Gafni.

The whole process of design, manufacture and assembly of the Carboard Bike, does not exceed the 10 dollars budget, having a retail price ranging between 70 and 90 dollars depending on the extras added by the customer. Made with cardboard, its creator was inspired by the documentary about the uses of cardboard that was broadcasted in his place of residence.

The secret for the pressed cardboard to acquire solidity and resistance lies in the resin solution to which the parts of the bike, handlebars, frame, pedals and accessories are subjected, and which is a formula made by Izhar himself, an enthusiastic cyclist. He has created an eco-vehicle, which offers all the guarantees of safety, as it is backed by the enthusiasm and experience as a designer of its author.

The solidification process ends by adding a layer of pearlescent paint, being able to withstand water and humidity, presenting a long durability. The video shows in more detail each and every one of the steps that make up the manufacture of the Cardboard Bike, a type of product that due to the scarce resources it requires, materials from recycling, thick cardboard and materials easy to find. It could be manufactured in developing countries.

READ IT IN SPANISH: Cardboard Bike Project, bicicleta de cartón reciclado por 10 dolares

Izhar's bicycles redefine the idea of green transportation in every way, being environmentally friendly from the earliest stages of production and marketing. Izhar Gafni, a resident of Kibbutz Bror Hayil in the Negev (Israel), took the most popular vehicle in the community and decided to turn it into a viable, sustainable and brilliant business idea.

In addition, those who decide to add a removable motor to their frame instantly turn it into an electric bike, which increases the bike's weight but improves its performance over medium distances.

Bottles that transform into hedges, records that become a menacing dark wave of oil, thousands of pill bottles that form part of the design of a lamp, yogurt pots that pile up to draw the skyline of a big city.

Or more everyday things like peculiar alphabet books whose origin are obsolete keyboards that become a woven fabric with thousands of words. Almost any object in the hands of the artist Jean Shin can be recycled and given a new expressive opportunity, preventing it from being definitively lost or ending up polluting the tempestuous waters of the ocean.

The merit of Jean Shin's installations resides not in the fact of demonstrating his ability to transform waste into artistic material with which he creates ingenious sculptural pieces with which he transmits his concern for the environmental deterioration that is leading us as a civilization to a dead end, from which it is increasingly difficult to escape.

But in being able to articulate a coherent language that contains both an aesthetic and plastic lecture, through which he can articulate a discourse with empathetic capacity. As to seduce the viewer and subjectively transmits a specific idea on a particular topic that in the background creates a reflective aftertaste.

BIZARRE SCULPTURES WITH A MESSAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DENUNCIATION.

That allows him to create an opinion about, for example, the effects of living in a society where more and more voices criticize the unbridled consumption in which we live. Another of the qualities of his sculptures is that the observer is not limited to maintain a passive attitude to the work, inviting him to debate, challenging him to take an active stance, in this sense the touch is an elementary element as well as specific in the dialogue with the work enriching the information he perceives.

Although born in Seoul, South Korea, she spent most of her childhood in the United States, attending the Shin Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999, after the completion of which she received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He currently resides and has his studio in New York. Where he has become one of the most relevant names in the art scene, regularly participating in exhibitions organized by the galleries of the Big Apple.

READ IT IN SPANISH: El arte reciclado y activista del artista Jean Shin

In this sense, his work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010), the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and the Philadelphia Museum (2006), and retrospective exhibitions such as the one dedicated to him by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004).