{"id":235440,"date":"2012-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/garbage-becomes-art\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:00","slug":"garbage-becomes-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/garbage-becomes-art\/","title":{"rendered":"La basura se convierte en arte"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTrash\u201d exhibit at the New Children\u2019s Museum inspires and educates<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kids climbing and jumping in Jason Rogenes' Megalitransponder in TRASH at New Children\u2019s Museum (Photo courtesy of NCM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Will Bowen | Downtown News<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know 66 percent of the 4.9 pounds of trash you produced today could have been recycled? Instead, all of it may have made its way to the Miramar Landfill, which takes in 7,800 pounds of trash a day. This is three times the amount that came in daily during the 1960s.<\/p>\n

This is one of the issues addressed in the art show \u201cTrash\u201d at the New Children\u2019s Museum, located at 200 W. Island Ave. in the Marina district. The show opened in October 2011 and is a popular one, attracting adults and children who can play with the artwork in a hands-on manner to facilitate learning.<\/p>\n

There are 12 art exhibits by 12 different artists in the show. Each utilizes trash for materials and addresses the theme of the growing trash problem in the world. The exhibits are meant to heighten awareness, so viewers may see new possibilities to prevent an ecological disaster brought on by excess trash in the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese trash-based art works help us to look at trash in different ways,\u201d said Albert Songalia, a guide and facilitator at the museum. \u201cThe artistic aspect helps people to take in information about the trash problem in a way that\u2026 better speaks to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second New Children\u2019s Museum guide, Breyanna Lyles, said the exhibits are a creative way to start conversations with the children who visit the museum. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to see the kids being creative, especially how they use the space and in terms of the questions they ask,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Some of the exhibits in \u201cTrash\u201d include \u201cThree Horned Beast and Baby Beast,\u201d which are blue and purple exoskeleton skyscrapers that children can play under; \u201cThe Complex,\u201d an imagined community in Tijuana made out of plastic bottles filled with colored plastic strips; and \u201cStereo Trash,\u201d a set of five stereoscopic viewers that children can look through to view 3-D art images of trash and recycling economies.<\/p>\n

Other notable exhibits include \u201cThe Secret Garden,\u201d a walk-through maze based on old clothing that is shipped abroad; \u201cMegalithic Transponder,\u201d a futurist vision of a scientific sculpture made out of Styrofoam containers and cardboard boxes; and \u201cThe Midden Project,\u201d four years worth of trash collected by two sisters, suspended from a ceiling in a fishing net.<\/p>\n

The exhibits \u201cencourage parents and children to talk about the issue of trash,\u201d Jorge Hernandez said. Hernandez is a New Children\u2019s Museum guide as well, and said he thinks the exhibits are positive for facilitating conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the kids are more aware of the problem than their parents,\u201d he said. \u201cThe kids often like to sing slogans such as \u2018Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,\u2019 which they learned at school.\u201d<\/p>\n

An exhibit designed to appeal particularly to adults is \u201cPictures of Garbage.\u201d It consists of a set of large photographs of artistically arranged debris taken from large landfills in Brazil. Workers, known as \u201ccatadores,\u201d pick through trash looking for recyclable materials to sustain their families.<\/p>\n

The artist, Vic Muniz, hired several catadores to arrange trash in a pattern, approximately the size of a room, to create portrait-like images. The images are duplicates of classical portraits, like \u201cThe Death of Marat.\u201d As part of the exhibit, Muniz invites visitors to compose their own portraits, using broken plastic toys in light boxes, similar to his technique.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is by empowering the viewer that art achieves its miraculous force,\u201d Muniz said in a press release for the show.<\/p>\n

The New Children\u2019s Museum is open Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. For more information visit thinkplaycreate.org or call (619) 233-8792.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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