Junk Art

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Artist Makes Portraits Using Junk



The talented artist Jason Mecier creates portraits of celebrities using junk. For example the portrait of Mariah Carey includes different beauty products, like lipstick and eyeliner.

It is worth mentioning that Mr. Mecier is famous for his masterpieces - he has been creating works of art from rubbish for over 10 years. For his works, the artist uses waste that is gladly offered by celebrities themselves. One of his latest creations is the portrait of US President Barack Obama.

The list of celebrities illustrated on his works includes: Anna Nicole-Smith, Olsen twins, Andy Warhol, comedians Cheech and Chong, comedian Chris Rock and Ru Paul.

Here at infoniac.com we discovered that Jason has always been interested in making art using all sorts of items around him. Mecier's grandmother was the one to inspire the artist.

The portrait of Anna Nicole Smith is made of pink toys and newspaper articles that wrote about the tragic death of the pop star. Andy Warhol's illustration includes the Campbell soup cans that became famous thank to Andy and bananas that look like the ones on the album coverwork he developed for The Velvet Underground.

The comedian Chris Rock is illustrated using a brick wall resembling those found in New York comedy clubs. The comedian is surrounded by different items such as a DVD copy of Pootie Tang and a movie in which he played a role. The two famous comedians Cheech and Chong are shown on a work made up of drug paraphernalia that includes a bong and cigarette lighters. The work illustrating the drag queen Ru Paul includes different hair products, mobile phones and a book entitled: Gay Haiku.













Source:
http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...sing-junk.html

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Artists Use Plastic Trash to Make Works of Art



Lumenhouse in Brooklyn, New York, opened its doors for everyone willing to visit the Convergence Exhibition that focuses on the beauty hidden within plastic trash.

Different artists presented their works at the exhibition. One of the most inspiring works is called Indra's Cloud whose author is Anne Percoco. The piece is made of hundreds of plastic containers that are connected in a way to look like a cloud.

"There was a yoga group staying in the same guesthouse as me, in Vrindavan, India. Over the course of a month, they used all these bottles and they piled up in the hallways. I just collected them," Percoco told Art Threat.

Among other works there's Pink Project Table, made of a series of plastic products, and Catchment, a sculpture created using found plastic shapes.

It is worth mentioning that the idea to open such as exhibition came to curator Mariko Tanaka as a result of her collaboration with Project Vortex.

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/environment/...ks-of-art.html

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Artist Makes Animal Sculptures Using Old Newspapers





Nick Georgiou is an artist from Tucson who recently presented his latest work made of recycled old newspapers. Georgiou's sculptures take the form of different animals.

According to the designer, today books and newspapers are turning into artifacts, being steadily replaced by digital content.

His sculptures are made of old newspapers that were either gathered by him or donated by other people. Georgiou folds these newspapers and stitches them together to make different creatures.

Source:Artist Makes Animal Sculptures Using Old Newspapers - Offbeat News - InfoNIAC - Latest Inventions

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Artist Makes Detailed Sculptures Using Recycled Paper





Using cardboards, artist Don Lucho was able to make incredible works of art. He uses this material to make a 3D world that illustrates scenarios of the daily life of an average person.

Shown at the streets of Santiago, Chile, the cardboard sculptures show crashed vehicles, fallen aircrafts and even the dwellings that a lot of persons will most likely recognize as their own.

The artist pays a lot of attention to details, most of which we quite often miss - hubcaps on a car, or a roll of toilet paper in a dwelling, or the fold of a blanket.

It is worth mentioning that every piece is made using recycled paper.

For more pics. Visit A Cardboard World - Visboo

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...led-paper.html

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German Artist Builds Hotel Using Garbage from All Over Europe



Ha Schult, an artist from Germany, decided to create a temporary 5-room hotel from materials he was able to find in landfills, beaches and flea markets.

The materials rang from balloons to guitars and all of them were gathered in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

he house was built in the center of the City of Madrid and was called the Beach Garbage Hotel.

It is worth mentioning that the building was erected to protest marine pollution, which leads to the damage of ecosystem around the globe.

One can find this hotel in Plaza de Callao. The Beach Garbage Hotel will close on January 23rd. Amusingly enough, it opened the same day the annual International Tourism Fair did.

According to Schult, the goal was to show that today the oceans are being used as a huge garbage dump

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...er-europe.html

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Artist Helps Create a Hotel From 200,000 Plastic Cards







In case you don't know what to do with unwanted hotel key cards that this story might just interest you. Recently Holiday Inn's Key Card Hotel was presented in Manhattan, New York. The hotel features a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, but what is really impressive it that everything in the hotel is made of plastic hotel key cards, including life-sized furniture.

The building weights 2 tons and occupies an area of 400 square feet. Holiday Inn's Key Card Hotel will be opened for business on September 21st. It was created with the help of the famous "card-stacker" Bryan Berg. "This is my largest card-stacking challenge to date and the only card creation I have ever made at full human scale," said the artist and world-record holder.

Using Holiday Inn playing cards, Mr. Berg looks forward to create a 9ft copy of the Empire State Building, which will be located in the lobby of the hotel. According to Kevin Kowalski, senior vice president of global brand management at Holiday Inn, the Key Card Hotel is the only hotel on the planet to be made of plastic cards.

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...tic-cards.html

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Aircraft from 1960s Transformed into Luxury Hotel







The old 120-seater aircraft located at Teuge Airport, Netherlands, has been transformed into a luxury hotel. The German plane from the 1960s features a luxurious sauna, Jacuzzi, three flat screens, Blu-ray player and more.

The rich guests are provided 24-hour service. The luxury interior of the aircraft has been designed by a Dutch company called Hotelsuites.nl.

The cockpit of the East German government vehicle remained unchanged so guests could go back to the Cold War period and observe the look of the original cockpit of that time.

In addition, guests who like extreme sports are welcome to try parachute jumps and/or perform stunt plane rides, which will surely make their stay unforgettable.

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...ury-hotel.html

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Artist that Makes Beautiful Sculptures from Old Books









Brian Dettmer is an artist that decided to make something beautiful out of old books, cassette tapes, records and maps.

By using clams, tweezers and X-Acto knives he transforms the upper mentioned objects into very nice sculptures.

The main objects that the artist turns into works of art are unused old books. From the wide range of books he mostly selects out of date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books and dictionaries.

Dettmer's goal is to bring a new life into these objects and fill them with a new meaning. His works deliver different messages from narrative to political.

The artist's works can be observed in various galleries and museums across North American and Europe

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...old-books.html

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Artist Makes Carpet Using Cigarette Butts





Jesus Bubu Negron is an artist from Puerto Rico who decided to use the item that is one of the most often littered on the streets and make a beautiful creation out of it. He used cigarette butts to create something that resembles a woven carpet.

The commissioned street cleaner had no problem collecting material for his work. However, instead of throwing out the cigarette butts, Mr. Negron used them for fashion.

His art project was displayed at the Sharjah Biennale. The project also features paper from the cigarettes that was unrolled and put on top of each other.

With butts of different colors used, it was possible to create a pattern that looks like a woven textile rug.

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...tte-butts.html