RiscArti and its Debut at Maker Faire 2019: When Objects Revive in a Work of Art

Each of these declinations on recycling, shows us how to recover and reassembling the pieces, removing them from the waste loop and putting them back into a virtuous circuit, giving a new identity or functionality to the object.

RiscArti promotes a multidisciplinary format to find creative solutions to the encumbrance of waste. Probably art will not be able to take all the waste from the streets, all the plastic from the seas and clean up C02 emissions from the air, but it is important to contribute to forming values of sustainability and commitment to the environment, changing use dynamics. The aesthetics of waste is the contribution of RiscArti to unfold new scenarios to our eyes and help renew models of thought and lifestyles related to a post-consumer era in decline.

These are not my legs is a work in recycled wood, foam rubber, galvanized iron, is one of the series Fragile Skeletons (Scheletri Fragili) by Giovanni Longo. Woods collected on the beach, marked by woodworms and protected by their bark, engraved in their grains like wrinkles by water and split by the sun. These pieces of wood are assembled to compose the subject, of which the artist studies the anatomy and from there searches for the pieces brought back to the shore by the sea, to build works meticulously assembled, delicate and disorienting.

Two artists from Japan have also exhibited for RiscArti. As Japanese citizens, they know very well what does mean living in a polluted town. The two artists have announced that the medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be made by artists who reuse waste from smartphones and tablets.

Holland was represented at RiscArti with two works: one made with egg cartons and the other one with sandwich bags.

Also on display was a work entitled One-room Wi-Fi for Two (Monolocale Wi-Fi per Due), a collaboration between the artists Lac69 and ERa. Their work represents an electro-welded steel cage, a narrow space with wires and cables; inside the cage a human figure made of old newspapers, which are now little readable, with a keyboard and a monitor. A reflection on the dependence of our times on technology that annihilates us, preventing us from moving and acting in time to save our Planet.

For Greece exhibited Sokratis, an artist who collects electronic materials that become cells covering his mannequins (As We are Today is the title of his work).

The seventh edition of the Maker Faire Rome, The European Edition, has made to record more than 100,000 visitors. This faire represents the most important event dedicated to technological innovation, told in a simple and informal way, organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome through its special company Innova Camera.

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