We continue the story of the ten most important artists of our time according to Newsweek.com

< strong> MARETITSA PETRCH House-hybrid
Source: newsweek.com

Maretitsa Petrch - the artist who created, along with the actual works of art, some very important "social" activities, such as: dry toilet for Latin American slum and container Water for African countries, which can also be used as a mine "blanket." Petrch supporter of what art can change the world, and she constantly embodies that idea. Its purely artistic projects, of course, is not it obvious utilitarian, but they function, which is perhaps the best possible art: artistic means they show how you can make a difference.

"I believe in art. Art is necessary for people to equip the world "- says Petrch. Perhaps its main contribution to the arts is precisely this faith in his creative power.

Maretitsa Petrch was born in 1953 in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, where he lives and works today. It started out as an architect, but about 15 years ago began to create his first art objects based on the architecture.

Ideas Petrch works are born out of buildings and structures, seen it somewhere away from home such as in Venezuela or in Rajasthan in India. It is very carefully adjusts the original building to make it more habitable. "We should respect the people living in slums and suburbs, because they have something to learn: at least how they adapt to life in such circumstances", - says Petrch. Other work her closer, faster, to sculpture than to the actual architecture, because it connects them to the different buildings into one. For example, its large-scale installation, "House of the hybrid," exhibited in Massachusetstkom Institute of Technology - is a fantastic house, connecting the features of buildings in Caracas, the West Bank and of the West Palm Beach, Florida. Pitting in his work, these seemingly irreconcilable structures Petrch reflect reality, almost at the same time rising above it to surrealism.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: newsweek.com , artinvestment.ru

from the list of the Top-10 most important artists of our time according to Newsweek.com we already talked about:

1. Demiane Hurst ;
2. Christiane Markle .
3. Jeff Wall .