MUSCLED JESUS!, 8x8" spray paint on canvas by Carlos Eduardo Plaza, 2025

MUSCLED JESUS!, 8X8" SPRAY PAINT ON CANVAS BY CARLOS EDUARDO PLAZA, 2025

“UP-CYCLING, WHEN WASTE BECOMES ART” BY CARLOS PLAZA

The concept behind this project is to reuse discarded objects or material in such a way as to create a new product of higher quality or value than the original.

This work seeks to transform waste into works of art. The concept, therefore, goes beyond the conventional recycling of materials by creating objects that exceed the economic, cultural, and social value of the original product.

CARLOS PLAZA - PHOTOGRAPHER / VISUAL ARTIST

Carlos Plaza is a native of Venezuela, a graphic designer by trade who has had a lifelong interest in photography, as well as in Visual Arts, specializing in ‘up-cycled art’ made with consumer plastic materials, like food containers.

Carlos’ latest ‘up-cycling’ pieces, shown here, are the result of his experiences growing up in Venezuela, where some of the most important ‘kinetic-opt art’ in history was produced in the 20th century by artists like; Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesus Soto, Alejandro Otero and Gego, just to mention a few.

The concept behind these pieces is focused mostly in up-cycling food plastic (take out) containers, as well as plastic straws, and any other plastic materials, by making them into a piece of artwork that, ‘hopefully’, end up on someone’s wall, instead of in waste landfills or even worse... in our precious oceans.

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