Excess beauty creates ugly waste.
another project inspired by william mcdonough. source = fragonard; "The Swing".
The origial painting is by Fragonard, who is a painter from the Rococo period. Rococo was known to build images and architecture upon beauty and music rather than content and functionality, or meaning. I feel that modern art has become this facade of excess pile of narcissism and self promotion that we need a revolution in the art world, we need to give back to this planet. There are too many pretty pictures, but we need to bring back functionality in art.
The reason why I chose to reproduce Fragonard's painting SPECIFICALLY in this piece is because I WISH TO MAKE NEW THINGS OUT OF OLD MATERIAL. This painting was THE PAINTING of the Rococo period, it was an old painting with an old message that was recreated into a new piece with a new meaning.
This project was constructed through silk-screening (Serigraphy), and the assembled with found wood, and founded plexi glass from the OCAD fabrication studios. It is simply a study on how things can be remade from old material. William mcdonough quotes: "Waste = Food."
I also wish to remind all artists that art does not have to always be a promotion for self arrogance, rather we could use it as a didactic tool. Society see print as a fine-art practice in the art world, but we often forget the functionality in PRINT CULTURE.
Excess beauty creates waste and superficiality which is 90% of the world right now and it is too wasteful. we should be using art as a tool RATHER than the object and focusing on curing the planet into a better and positive world than to be drowned in our self absorbed arrogance and self promotions.
This waste bin was fabricated with founded ply wood and plexi-glass. Image was screen printed with acrylic ink.
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