Take a look at the fascinating work of Germany’s “trashy” answer to Christo, H.A. Schult:
Garbage is once again the leitmotif in Schult’s latest work. “We are living in the time of garbage,” says Schult. “We produce garbage and we will be garbage. I created a thousand sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves.” Here, Schult is referring to his 1,000 trash people, humanoids he has created from trash. He first exhibited them in 1996 at the Roman amphitheater inside Xantene, a recreated Roman village in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The figures triggered such an overwhelmingly positive response that he decided to take them on tour. “It is a social sculpture,” he explains. “It is not only a sculpture for the eyes. It’s a sculpture to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.”
Here’s an amazing 3D panoramic view photograph of one of Schult’s Trash People installations.
