detourist

A way to recycle, the temporary art interventions of Leo Fitzmaurice, via PingMag:

From 2005 to 2006, artist Leo Fitzmaurice became a Detourist: while traveling to Berlin, London, Shanghai, Stavanger, Zurich and back to his own city Liverpool, he made around half-a-dozen temporary artworks by rearranging found materials such as catalogues, flyers, or cardboards in their own environment creating some unexpected new meanings. By placing those rearranged objects in public spaces, and sidewalks he made art in the form of small, temporary interventions. PingMag wanted to find out more about Leo’s theory behind his objets trouvés and met him at Berlin’s General Public gallery…

Leo Fitzmaurice’s “Craterform” made out of the well-known UK shopping catalogue of Argos, which sells just about everything [PingMag]

Making art out of an everyday object… something that you don’t mind renouncing when you leave. So art is not about the object, but about its making, the intriguing creation that a found object inspires. More about the readymades of Duchamp…