BBQ

'Dumpster- and Recycling-artist' Ron van der Ende makes realistic bas-reliefs from salvaged wood, recycling timber from torn down houses.

His beautifully marbled steak combines nicely with his woodstack and charcoaled piece of firewood: an instant recycled art barbeque!

By the way. Ron also runs a blog called artbbq listing fellow artist's studio playlists. Can't be a coincidence.


Ron van der Ende, 'Still Life', 2010


Ron van der Ende, 'On Re-Entry (Burning Log)', 2010


Ron van der Ende, 's.t. (Wood Stack)', 2011

Also see here.

CONSUME TO FURNISH

Waste, especially synthetic waste, is of increasing interest to artist and designer as resource.

Renowned conceptual artist Dan Peterman is a pioneer in this field. The staple of his work consists of furniture in multi-colored grey tones created from recycled "consumed" plastic. For instance 'Running Table' is a public picnic table created from the equivalent of two million plastic milk bottles. Other furniture is created from the anual plastic waste of a certain number of people.

In 'Store (Cheese)' Dan Peterman came up with a solution to dumping DDT-contaminated milk by turning it into cheese as a modulatory minimalistic work of art.

In 'Bottle Cap Pasta' Peterman makes Pasta using a utensil with a used bottle cap to shape the dough. The installation further contains recycled plastic floor, pallets and tables and refrigerators.


Dan Peterman, 'Running Table' (1997)


Dan Peterman, 'Store (Cheese)' (1991-1993)


Dan Peterman, 'Bottle Cap Pasta' (2001)


Dan Peterman, 'Bottle Cap Pasta (detail)' (2001)


Dan Peterman, 'Accessories to an Event (Ahlen)' (2003)

OFF THE GRID COOKING

If you want to lower your fuel consumption and you live in a really sunny place solar cooking is the new fad.

Solar cookers are easy to build. Apparently even a few pieces of cardboard from an old box and some tin foil will do. Give it a try when summer comes (as an alternative to -or combined with- your BBQ)!

Retail solar cookers are available as well (bottom picture).

Of course you need to have all your cooking done before sundown.

HUNGRY GOD

Hindu Gods are very hungry. An endless stream of pilgrims offer puja's, mostly in the form of food, a few times a day to their favourite deity.

Indian artist Subodh Gupta uses the shiny stainless steel pots, found in every Indian household, to create sculptures or as subject/material for his paintings.


Subodh Gupta, 'Very Hungry God' (2006)


Subodh Gupta, 'Line of Control' (2009?)

BOOMERANG EFFECT

The essence of recycling is that what you throw out comes back to you to be used again.

The sports equipment ultimately embodying this is of course the boomerang, famous for naming a theory of reactance.

German artist Wolf von Kries parcelled and stamped a handmade boomerang and sent it off to Australia to an non-existant address. After a while the parcel was returned to his own address.



Wolf von Kries, 'Boomerang' (2002)

3D B-BALL

Berlin artist Angela Lubic created a graphical 3-dimensional basketball court projected on the outer wall of a school building. 3 basketball hoops are attached within the graphics. A pedestrian zone is transformed in a recreational zone for sport and exercise

The entangled lines of the courts are very disorientating and with a third hoop it seems new rules are in order to play the game.







Angela Lubic, 'Jump and Win' (2010)

KÖRPERKULTUR

The fitness of the human body and art have a lifelong relationship. The modernists of the Bauhaus were aware of that. Mandatory in the education program of the Dessau arts & crafts institute was physical exercise.



László Moholy-Nagy, 'Sport Makes Appetite' (1927)



Oskar Schlemmer, 'Mann' (1928)



T. Lux Feininger, 'Sport Am Bauhaus' (1928)