Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur creates reproductions of the works of the most important masters in art history with plastic waste
Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur creates faithful reproductions of the works of the most important masters in the history of art, but without painting. How does? Using only plastic fragments collected from the streets and rivers of São Paulo.
Srur aims to raise public awareness on the issue of environmental pollution, caused by the accumulation of waste. On the occasion of his last exhibition he copied the masterpieces of Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Warhol.
These works will remain for centuries in the history of humanity, as well as the plastic that we are discharging into nature
he told Reuters in his study.
We know that the Mona Lisa is much more than 200 years old. The plastics we use will also remain in nature for more than 200 years
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The artist has worked on environmental issues for a long time, creating huge installations in public spaces around São Paulo, often along the city's most polluted rivers.
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During the Coronavirus pandemic, Srur's attention returned to the studio, where he swapped brushes for a pair of tweezers, working the colored plastic to form the images.
Plastic dominates everything and everyone. I present this series with the name of “Natureza Plastica”, works that have no paint. I make a bunch of plastic bags that end up creating the images you see.
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According to the estimates of the UN Environment, collected in the report " “Single-use Plastics: A roadmap for Sustainability” 5 trillion plastic bags are used around the world every year. Part of these products end up polluting ecosystems: 8 million plastic waste goes to poison the oceans.
Cleaning the environment, giving new life to waste and transforming waste into beauty are very important activities for the protection of the planet, but avoiding the use of disposable plastic bags, including envelopes, is certainly an essential step.
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