Eric MAGKEEV
Trash avant-garde, or turning the ugly into the beautiful.
Garbage and art found themselves on the same territory at the beginning of the last century. In 1918, German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters created appliques from cigarette wrappers and scraps of travel tickets. Since then, trash art has acquired manifestos, ideologists and fans around the world.
Some people are afraid of becoming cluttered and are in a hurry to get rid of unnecessary things. Others, on the contrary, take care of everything they have and find use for any trinket, old furniture, broken mirrors, pieces of plastic, fabric.
One of those who gives second life to even garbage is Eric Magkeev.
What Eric does is trash art: “alternative art”. It does not lend itself to general rules and standards. It is unpredictable, rebellious, and that makes it even more beautiful and amazing.
What others throw away, he turns into bright, amazingly expressive works of art. He creates sculptures, three-dimensional paintings, using a variety of objects that are absolutely harmless and give only positive emotions.
