Trash People’ Exhibition by HA Schult

Hi Everyone,

I want to tell you about the world famous ‘Trash People’ Exhibition that showing in Ariel Sharon Park, just outside of Tel Aviv. The park, which itself is built on the Hiriya, what was Israel’s largest landfill site, and has been transformed into an ecological oasis, hosting the Trash People , a project by German artist HA Schult. The exhibition features 20 tons of iron, glass, computer parts and industrial waste, something only photos do justice.

Ha Schult installed his army of life sized trash people all over the world... 

On the ice in the Arctic at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

In Rome...

in Gizeh, Egypt...

Next to Cologne Cathedral, Germany...

In the Matterhorn (On the border between Switzerland and Italy)...

On the Great Wall, China...

In St. Basil's Moscow

and now in Tel Aviv...

In 1969, Schult caught the attention of the world with his art action "Situation Schackstrasse." The happening consisted of covering a street in Munich with trash and paper, and police immediately arrested the artist. But that was only the beginning -- the projects grew as Schult changed urban venues. 

In 1976, he filled St. Mark's Square in Venice with old newspapers in an overnight action that surprised the authorities, Venetians and art lovers alike. In another work, for a car fetish show, he installed a mythical golden-winged Ford Fiesta on top of a column marking the entrance to the Cologne's City Museum, where it stands to this day. In New York, HA Schult hired a stunt pilot to 'crash' a Cessna into the garbage dump on Staten Island and, in 1983, he created a paper river in downtown New York, using old issues of the New York Times, with the North and South towers of the World Trade Center as a backdrop." His latest creation has been a Garbage Hotel set up in Spain made of beach debris.

It was in 1996, when German artist HA Schult, first came up with the idea of life–sized trash people as reflections of ourselves. The installation took more than six months and was done with the help of 30 assistants. The material for the project was collected at the municipal depot in Cologne, Germany. The "Trash People" are molded from tin cans, computers, car parts, plastics. Thus, the whole installation was made out of the waste we constantly produce every day. HA Schult delivers his picture of us, and our consequences to the planet. 

I hope you enjoyed today's post...

Don't forget to Design your world

Shir :)

Free Wheel - Cyclepedia, Iconic Bicycle design

Hi everyone,

I would like to tell you about the exhibition "FREE WHEEL". The exhibition is a designed bicycles from the collection of "Michael Embacher". 
The bicycle exhibition presents about a hundred bicycles according to four cross-sections: time, content, technology, and of course, design. 

The exhibition provides visitors with a close look at one of the world's most unique objects - the bicycle, a personal means of transportation that since its invention has symbolized equal freedom of movement for all. In the past two hundred years since bicycles became established in their present configuration, their structure and operation have remained virtually unchanged - two wheels, a solid frame, handlebars, saddle, and a propulsion system comprising a chain, chain wheels, and pedals. In terms of shape and structure, they are offshoots of the human body, and enable optimal human-powered propulsion. This unique combination leads the tour of the exhibition through the bicycles and cyclists.

In the exhibition you can see 43 iconic bicycles from the private collection of Michael Embacher, an Austrian collector who has collected some 275 unique bicycles over the past decade.

In the space of the design museum we can see expanded historical continuum where visitors are able to trace the development of bicycles, cycling trends, and cycling fashion from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day. The Design Lab will presents the future of bicycles, both from a technological perspective and a new look at the diverse range of future bicycle users.

It's amazing to see how a transportation object as bicycle developed over the years and how design features become a use of functionality and not just something that makes the object prettier.  

you can see bellow some pictures that i took in the exhibition...

Don't forget to Design your world
Shir :)