artists finding inspiration in china's bad air - large air purifier

Photographer Wu Di's studio is hidden in a dusty corner in northeast Beijing and is not easy to find, but a mannequin in military uniform
Stylish gas masks and roots jerseys are the sign for you in the right place.
Inside, Wu showed some of his works, such as stylized shots of brand models.
Clothing name near Rotary sewage pool discharged by garment factory.
Recently, he photographed a child wearing 445 masks and sticking out like an elephant's nose.
"The government promises that air quality will meet the standard in 2030.
So that means we will have about 1,500 days of air below standard from now until then.
If you need a mask every three days, that's 445, "he said, explaining his calculations with the" good days "and" bad days "of these 16 years.
Today, the backsliding of Life in China is a drone about a degraded environment: state media reported that nearly 60% of China's groundwater was contaminated, 19.
4% of farmland is polluted.
In the 2,028 days from April 2008 to March 2014, only 25 days of air quality in Beijing were considered "good" by the United States. S.
Standard, data from the United StatesS.
Embassy here.
The reports are intended to keep citizens and officials informed and even shocked, but the effect may be the opposite --paralyzing.
However, artists are increasingly finding inspiration in the ecological quagmire.
With photos, paintings, conceptual works and performances, they penetrate the hustle and bustle of the data and attract the attention and imagination of the authorities and the public.
Beijing artist Liang Kegang recently made headlines at the auction of fresh air in France;
Small glass tank with hinge top, rubber seal and simple sticker-
"Aix-en-Provence Hotel, France "-
The price is about $860.
In a gloomy, bad
On air day this winter, 20 masked artists gathered at the Temple of Heaven in the capital, lying on the ground.
Later, they posed for a tourist.
Just like a group shot, everyone is holding a typical postcard showing the historic sites of the cake
Like the layers of structure that extend under the blue sky.
On another haze day, Wu took a picture of a young girl whose oxygen tube ran from her nose to the green heart --shaped balloon.
It published articles in China Newsweek and other publications.
Recently, Wu has been wandering around Hebei province. Hebei province is 7 of China's 10 most polluted cities.
The factories and power plants that produce smog in Beijing are there;
Wu posed on a desolate field in front of a complex for people to "camp" and the doctor danced on another open space.
"In a way, it's easier to take documentary photos, but it seems that using the art method will have a greater impact," said Wu, who took news photos for Greenpeace.
"The artistic style has a greater impact and lasts longer.
: From a distance, Yao Lu's work is like the poetic meaning of the landscape waterfall. it is full of branches and small pavilions.
But check it carefully and you will see a pile of debris and rubble.
Like Wu, Yao found inspiration in China's ruined landscape through his computer
The central approach is less risky, and his style is less counter-competitive.
Using the software, Yao took photos of Beijing's garbage dump and digitally layered them with elements from traditional Chinese landscape brushesand-ink paintings.
Yao said Beijing appeared to be building every quarter before the 2008 Summer Olympics.
He said: "There is only a mountain of garbage here. a lot of garbage is covered with green cloth . "
"These remind me of the paintings of the Song Dynasty.
The "new landscape" series of "Yao" has developed slowly;
Over the past seven years, he has created about 35 works on display in Europe, New York, South Korea, Singapore and elsewhere. (
You can also check his work on the free iPad app. )
Despite the strong welcome, especially overseas, the project is a bit emotionally consumed.
In 2013, he decided to stop the creation of these works.
"I was not very excited when I was doing this series.
"Of course, I'm excited about the composition and the elements, but I'm heavy," he recalls . ".
"To some extent, it shows how helpless we are --
Chinese painting is a product of the spiritual heights of Chinese intellectuals.
Now such a Highland is made up of a pile of garbage.
When the painter started his 16-
In the winter of 2011, Beijing was covered with heavy snow, and air pollution was not on the chart.
I noticed the snow looked dirty so he collected a bunch and put it in a cold room.
In the next few days, he shaped the snow into the shape of human organs, including the lungs.
He put the mound on the absorbent paper and let it melt to form a gray pattern.
"The air is invisible, but you can feel it in your body.
"Imagine that all these particles and dirt enter your body every day," he said . ".
"You are not in a good mood.
"The use of artificial intelligence for haze snow reminds people of work in downtown Los Angeles. A.
Artist Kim Abeles moved to Southern California in the late 1970 s and was shocked by the smog.
"When I moved here for the first time, I would keep bringing it up to people and they would try to convince me it was just fog," she recalls . ".
So she began to create art on this topic.
Her collection of "smog collectors" includes a piece of silk tablecloth that is "printed" outside ".
She has a portrait of the United States on her "President's memorial haze plate. S.
Environmental and business leaders manufactured with smoke residues and their offers.
"Art paves the way for opening up conversations that people don't want to talk about," says Abeles . ".
Eventually, California began funding some of her work to raise public awareness of air pollution, car emissions testing, and ridesshare programs.
Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde wants Chinese officials to make a similar contribution to his pollution. themed work.
He designed an ambitious project to remove contaminants from the dirty sky in Beijing with a huge vacuum cleanertype device.
Pollution particles can be compressed into something similar to gems, the sale of jewelry, he said.
He thinks the price of 1 million rings is around $30.
Purification technology can be funded.
Rose was invited to a party at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, where the Dutch king hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping.
He had an appointment with the Chinese leader for eight minutes, so he decided to cut directly into the topic.
"I told him that we were inspired by your smog," she said . " She also talked to Xi's wife Peng Liyuan.
"Xi" looked at me a little strange.
The official People get a little nervous because . . . . . . You know China, they don't like to face it.
But it's also there.
"You can't ignore it," said Rose, who allocated his time between Europe and Shanghai.
"Then when he saw the smog ringing, he thought, 'Oh, you bold Dutchman!
They really like it.
"In a few weeks he will meet with city delegates in Beijing to discuss funding and the possibility of installing vacuum cleaners in public parks.
This concept is similar to a huge ion air purifier.
If a large electrostatic field is generated, the pollutants in the air will be positively charged and attracted by the collecting plate.
"These projects are not a solution to smog.
"This is the cleaning industry, electric vehicles," he said . ".
But he added that parks and rings were the experience of keeping people "away from all the numbers and fact sheets.
"One problem, though, is that the vacuum in rosgard will produce only enough particles to produce 15 to 16 haze rings a day.
Even before installing a vacuum in Beijing, he wanted to make and sell rings to increase public interest in the project --
And raise funds.
Therefore, he plans to assign interns to visit schools, hospitals and other facilities with air purifiers to collect particles to be processed into jewelry.
"This will be a new job: collecting smoke," Roosegaarde said . ".
"Innovation comes not only from scientists and science, but also from the creative side of artists and people.
"When you look at art history, artists like Michelle Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci always have a relationship with art and technology," Roosegaarde said . ".
"It's great to have radical ideas and a combination of hightech —
Then you have a new world, and you have the possibility to update the reality.
Nicole Liu of the Times Beijing Branch contributed to the report.