Landfillart is an international effort
encompassing one-thousand-forty-one (1,041) artists to claim a piece of
rusted metal garbage and create fine art. Pictured above is Andee Rudloff's Near Nashville hubcap featuring Bowling Green, KY's Corvette logo on a cake highlighting Bowling Green as the home of Duncan Hines and Corvettes.
The 1,041 pieces of rusted metal are actually old
automobile hub caps from the 1930’s through the 1970’s. Each hub cap,
after being cleaned and primed, is affectionately called a “metal
canvas.” Although most “metal canvases” have been transformed by the
artist using oil or acrylic paint, some have been weaved on, glued or
screwed or welded to, or made into fine sculpture.
I have found that the fine artists I have worked with
on this project do not even flinch when looking at this white round disc
of metal canvas. And why should they. Artists from the beginning of
time have used cave walls (Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain,) walls
of pyramids (Egyptians,) animal skins (American Indians,) etc… as their
canvas. In addition, as a gallery owner for over thirty years, I
maintain that artists, generally speaking, are more ecologically in
touch and environmentally aware. Perhaps that is the reason forty-one
artists readily accepted the challenge and embraced the project.
The project is near completion. We are currently
seeking the final group of artists. It has been evolving from a simple
idea of taking forty-one old rusted hub caps and creating forty-one
pieces of great art. The second phase has already started with the
acquisition of one thousand additional (1000) rusted hub caps which will
be turned into cleaned and primed “metal canvases. The project will
continue with finding one thousand (1000) talented artists who believe
in this project.
The third
phase will involve publishing a book on the project showcasing all one
thousand forty one (1,041) completed “metal canvases.”
An announcement will be made on Earth Day 2013 about the upcoming exhibitions and the final phase which will involve choosing 200 metal canvases that
adequately represent the project and create a traveling show.
The book and traveling show will portray the global art
community's effort to positively impact the environment through
re-purposing previous metal waste into great landfillart.
