ARTWORK: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT

We're happy to share our latest project. Gross Domestic Product is comprised of twelve miniature sculptures (layouts) made of wood and resin. This series is part of COLLEO' s ongoing exploration of trashscapes, i.e. the aesthetics of garbage in contemporary society, which includes CARSCAPES (2017) and YOU'RE IN A WONDERFUL COUNTRY (2016)

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According to Joseph Beuys, everyone is an artist. COLLEO believes that everybody is a sculptor: waste is the artwork we produce on a daily basis. It's a genre of street art: trash is literally everywhere you look. It is known as litter, rubbish, garbage. On average, European citizens produce 480 kilograms of waste each year. In 2016, Danish produced 777 kg, Italians 495 kg (Source: Eurostat, 2017). 

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MEDIA COVERAGE: THE STREETVIEWS OF SAN FRANCISCO ON THE POINT

The Summer edition of The Point, a print/digital literary "magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining" features a fascinating story by Min Li Chan titled "The Google Bus". The essay is accompanied by images of our artwork series The Streetviews of San Francisco.

Here's an excerpt:

In truth, we are part of an aristocracy. We are tech professionals, who choose to live in the city of San Francisco and commute to and from our suburban workplaces in the heart of Silicon Valley. Every day we sit in company-subsidized buses and gaze through tinted windows at an elevated vista of the gridlock. We lose an average of fifteen to twenty hours on the road weekly to live in proximity to urban vitality and culture. But the tech bus—and by extension, the mass commute down the 101—is also a symbol of what many think is wrong with San Francisco: an emerging monoculture of well-paid Silicon Valley yuppies, rising rents, deepening income inequality, and the displacement of working class families who, after decades here, can no longer afford to live in the city.

Read more about issue 14 of The Point.

ARTWORK: RACE TRACK

This is our new sculpture.

It's called Race Track.

It is the follow-up to POST-RACIAL. Especially this installation:

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A few glosses, for those who believe in everything they read: