Cologne, Trash People, H.A. Schult

Some say German artist H.A. Schult likes to provoke. He retorts that artists are society’s litmus test. Provocative or not, his Trash People are relics of a distinctly human byproduct: garbage.

"One man's trash is another man's treasure." Artist H.A. Schult takes that adage to the limit: he's installed 1,000 figures made of debris in front of one of the world's cultural treasures: the Cologne Cathedral.

Trash People are life-size figures the artist began making in 1996 from rubbish collected at the municipal depot in Cologne, the city where Schult lives and works. The figures' faces are molded from tin cans, their chests constructed from computers, their limbs shaped from crushed plastic -- all carefully formed into sculptures intended to remind people of the waste they constantly produce.

Schult needed 30 assistants for over six months to help him create the figures. They began with cleaning the rubbish; the stench would have otherwise been unbearable.

Schult's monumental statements parallel his exhibition locations. His Trash People have been installed at some of the greatest sites in the world: on China's Great Wall, near the Egyptian pyramids, on Moscow's Red Square, at Switzerland's Matterhorn mountain, at the Grand Place in Brussels and La Grande Arche in Paris.

Jau die hat meine Schwester auch geknipst, ich habe sie leider nicht gesehen ;-(

sie ist schlimmer als ich, da bin ich harmlos gegen

Hat deine Schwester auch Bilder bei Panoramio reingestellt, Wännchen?

Danke Oli für dein bo & Y* :-)

Gruß, Wim

Ne Wim leider nicht. Obwohl sie auch echt viele tolle Fotos hat.

Vielleicht kannst du Sie werben für Panoramio und bekommst noch ein Werbegeschenk :-)

Wäre schön :-)

PERFEKT!

(aber das sagte ich ja bereits..)

Oliver

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