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Recycled art: Ha Schult's Trash People travel to the Arctic

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Elisabeth Edvardsen

on March 18, 2011 Comments (0)

Environmental artist Ha Schult has installed his army of one thousand life sized trash people in the Arctic at Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

The German artist has travelled the world with his sculptures made of discarded materials since 1996 and has been below the La Défense arch in Paris, in the aptly named Piazza del Popolo (the people's square) in Rome, by the pyramids of Giza and now the freezing conditions of the Arctic.

Images: top - www.lokalstyre.no / all others www.haschult.de

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Estelle Page

I thinks this really sends out a great message of what can be achieved through recycling and the harmful environmental footprints that we are all leaving. I actually read a great Trash People blog
earlier which included some great pictures and a video to illustrate what HA Schult has achieved.

Tienoundoubrand

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How does he manages the cleaning of the places, like sea ice near Longyearbyen, once an usual strong bad weather has thrown away all this original trashes ?I would have some detail on this point ...If not, is another wrong intellectual way to pollute under the pretext to drag attention of peole on the cleanliness of the environment !
Generaly, I dislike artists wanting to make "land-art" and disturbing the nature, I pretend to preserve "natural nature", because they let there, after the passage of the TV, all the tracks of their intervention, for years.
I will ask "Ice People" in Longyearbyen about this action.
Tienoundoubrand

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