Florence Biennale
Heywood, Anthony (2017) Florence Biennale. [Exhibition/show, Sculpture]
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There is an ever increasing political and social demand for a more sustainable and environmentally friendly society which engages strongly with how we are treating the planet and its natural resources. The research intends to engage with both recent and traditional methods of recycling technology to create more sustainable sources of recycling paper/plastics and timber making whilst also testing ideas using recycling of manufactured products some of which would be articulated into the making of the sculpture. Recent legislation is emerging that will affect the way in which products and processes are developed, manufactured and disposed of at the end of their useful lives. This legislation is stimulating the search for alternative methods of considering how we re-evaluate this mass of society’s detritus and use of generating recycling and sustainable sources of using and recycling paper products. My research is intended to encourage audiences to become more environmentally friendly in interacting with the sculpture produced. Significant amounts of research are being undertaken throughout Europe, aiming to improve the performance and viability of more easily disposed of environmentally friendly materials so that they may replace more traditional systems. This movement of concerns is informing everything from design of utilities to how goods are wrapped and how we recycle.
My concerns with the environment and how the atmosphere has been subject to climate change has played a significant role in why I chose to use recycled building materials in my constructions and through the articulation of these materials as they reveal the fragility of our lifestyle question how we value our community today.
My concern for natural resources is self-evident in my use of particular materials and by using recycled and sustainable methods of manufacture it signals to the audience how we embody our personal values. I intend the sculptures to identify notions of the classicism of consumption, ostentation and material value centred upon a cultural and spiritual identity. The sculptures will capture classical form made from the used and useless, discarded relics of mass consumption timbers and other discarded building materials, all of which once stood for notions of civic pride and personal ownership. My engagement with the environment is through witnessing how our buildings and atmosphere are subject to environmental changes and human intervention. The sculpture admits to the fascination of the material objects but I also ask to question the depth and consistency of values. Using recycled timber, and papers etc.
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