Sustainable Trash by Stefan Gross

I’ve written before about Stefan Gross‘ Doomies and Rebirdies and Dutch People in Vegetable Houses. Recently, the Rotterdam-based conceptual artist showed his work at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels. The new exhibit was titled (The Precarious Future of) Sustainable Trash, and appropriate to the title, it closed yesterday. Precarious indeed.

The “Sustainable Trash” is a mix of found objects, polymer clay and oil paints. Gross takes discarded plastic children’s toys and then alternately disembowels them or covers them in a viscous spooge. The resulting works are in a word: nauseating.

But hey, sometimes dinosaurs DO throw up.  Or as Gross puts it:

“The world is a serious place these days. This problem I address with my work.”

Truth. Nothing says “Your childhood is over, and there’s no going back” quite like an eviscerated Furby. Click through for more Sustainable Trash and a slideshow from the art opening.