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废品艺术在美国旧金山炙手可热(图)
http://www.sina.com.cn 2005/01/28 19:26  国际在线

  The air-kissers with the interesting eyewear were all there. It was the art opening of the season, and the cognoscenti gathered to sip chardonnay and wax poetic about the work on display at one of the city's most prestigious galleries: the dump.

  "It's very textural, very architectonic," said Hector Dio Mendoza, a sculptor from San Jose, speaking of his 15-foot plastic foam tree, a work of haunting, austere beauty representative of what might be called the Trash Can School. "I love the way light reflects off the Styrofoam."

  Mr. Mendoza holds one of the most coveted positions in the San Francisco art world: one of three current artists in residence at the San Francisco Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center, a fragrant 44-acre font of inspiration otherwise known as the dump. About 500 gallery-hoppers attended the most recent opening, last Friday night, venturing about eight miles south of downtown to a service road lined by seagulls in Hitchcockian thousands.

  The open studio was the seasonal highlight of a program that gives a rotating roster of jury-selected artists access to the city's garbage.

  Founded in 1990 by a local artist and administered by Norcal Waste Systems, the company that picks up and recycles San Francisco's garbage, the program has become a bona fide phenomenon here. It is deeply expressive of a place where recycling is practically a religion and personal expression and environmental politics are urban dogma.

  Artists like Mr. Mendoza set up shop in a studio at the dump (items that cannot be recycled wind up at a landfill east of the city). Decked out in fashionable steel-toed boots and hard hats, they comb through 75 tons a day of eclectic debris - discarded CD boxes, dead microwave ovens and the like. The resulting artwork, like Mark Faigenbaum's "Raymond Chandler" - a noirish tableau created from salvaged bullets and a 1930's circuit panel spattered with what appeared to be vintage blood - underscores the city's status as the nation's capital of recycling. Currently, 63 percent of its garbage is recycled.

  The promotion of garbage as a "visual resource" is meant to inspire the public to be less wasteful and to help the city achieve a recycling goal of 75 percent by 2010.

  "A lot about San Francisco is outside the box, including dealing with garbage in a thoughtful way," said Kate Krebs, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition, a nonprofit organization in Washington.

  New York is the only other city with an artist officially designated to work with garbage. Since 1977, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 65, has been the sole artist in residence for the city's sanitation department, working on a conceptual piece on the former Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, from a studio in Lower Manhattan.

  In contrast to New York, Ms. Ukeles said, San Francisco's rotating artists are selected by a jury, own their own work and are physically based at the dump. "I was always jealous, honestly," she said.

废品艺术在美国旧金山炙手可热(图)

  美国加利福尼亚州旧金山市的固体废品转化及再利用中心(SWTRC)近日举办最新一期艺术展览,大约500名艺术爱好者参加了艺术展的开幕仪式。

  据《纽约时报》1月26日报道,与通常的废品回收站不同,旧金山固体废品转化及再利用中心(也被称作垃圾堆存场)最主要的功能是艺术灵感的源泉和艺术创造的基地。时下,以垃圾和废品为材料的艺术创作在旧金山变得炙手可热,每一季都有几个艺术家被选中,可以到SWTRC的44英亩的空间里进行创作。

  报道说,旧金山现在成为美国的回收之都(capital of recycling),目前旧金山市63%的垃圾能得到回收再利用。SWTRC的有关人士介绍说,将废品提升为一种“视觉资源”是为了呼吁大众少浪费物品,并帮助州政府实现到2010年75%的垃圾被回收再利用的目标。

  SWTRC成立于1990年,是由旧金山当地的一位艺术家建立的,目前由诺克尔废品管理局(Norcal Waste Systems)进行管理。现在,旧金山的废品都运送到SWTRC,在这里被挑拣和回收再利用。许多艺术家都在SWTRC里建立了自己的工作室,戴奥·门多萨就是其中的一位,这次展览就展出了门多萨的多件作品。

  美国在用废品进行艺术创作上早有实践。纽约甚至指定了一位艺术家专门从事废品艺术创作。米耶尔勒·拉德曼·乌克莱斯今年65岁,从1977年开始,她就驻扎在纽约市卫生局,在曼哈顿下城一个艺术工作室里从事对生鲜屠宰垃圾的概念创作。相比之下,SWTRC里的艺术家们是由一个评选委员会选出来的,他们不是专职从事废品创作,但当他们到SWTRC进行创作的时候,他们能直接和无数的废品接触,有更多的机会激发灵感。乌克莱斯女士说:“老实说,我一直很羡慕他们。” (文/孙亚萍)




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