Recycled Artworks: The CART Project by Artist Mario Ricci (Video)

ARTWORKS MADE WITH RECYCLED MATERIAL –

Remember the toy cars we all played with as kids? From small model cars to racing cars, we had so much fun racing them around the house. Surely, if you look through old boxes in the attic, you'll find quite a few of them too. Years are spent playing with them, then the models are collected and displayed in your bedroom. If all goes well, after a while, they're set aside on a shelf or in a box, or even thrown away altogether, becoming a distant memory. But who said that toy cars are only for playing or to be collected on shelves and bookcases?

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ARTEQUATTRORUOTE CART –

Thanks to the project CART Arteaquattroruote by the young Neapolitan artist Mario Ricci, toy cars become the protagonists of contemporary art paintings. A project that combines recycling and creativity and a format that saw, last September, the organization of a first exhibition entitled “Prima Corsa”.

THE ARTIST MARIO RICCI'S PROJECT –

A colorful body of mixed media in which the pictorial intervention is completed and embellished by the presence of toy cars chasing each other along the colorful streets drawn on the canvases, evoking in the observer the emotions, smells and colors of childhood gone by.

The aim of the project is in fact to revive model cars, preventing them from becoming a pleasant but distant memory..

And to learn more, don't miss this video in which the author of CART talks about the project:

And that's not all: in addition to bringing his toy cars to canvas, Mario Ricci has also decided to make them the protagonists of a real action film, a fun short film entitled "When recycling is an art" lasting two and a half minutes, written and directed by Gianluca Scuotto and Simone La Rocca.

Some of the beautiful creations made with recycled materials by artist Mario Ricci:

(All images are taken from the Facebook page . dedicated to the project. For information, you can write to [email protected])

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