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HANGING FIELDS – WAR TIME IS OVER
MILITARY REMNANTS IN STEEL CAGE, CM. 5000, 2003

Military waste and coal ash (remnants of power station) pressed into
steel cages, which provide grounds for planting orchards of olive trees,
wine grapes, figs and herbs.
By relocating and reshaping military waste such as parts of tents, military
boots, fragments of khaki-colored water bottles he is giving them a new
meaning and a new “cycle of life”. This is his political and environmental
expression of his vision of the verse: “and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks” (Isaiah 2: 4).

TOTAL ART WITH SOCIAL VALUES computerized fractal sketches limitless in colors;
changing an electric pole that was once an iron monster
Uri de Beer is a modern artist. Like the renaissance artists, he into an artistic creation; and producing giant wall
combines diverse creativity in different media and in integrated paintings printed like road signs with their origin being the
modalities. His tremendous engagement in environmental translation of a collage of waste woven onto a texture of
ecological issues along with his interest in philosophical and dazzling photographs. Above all, there is his series of
mystical themes is projected in his multifaceted work. This has three-dimensional sculptures in which he utilizes
provided him with exceptional skills, extensive creative options, and everyday waste and packaging thrown into the dumpster,
futuristic perception. removes them, “recontextualizes” them, fills them with
life, and turns them into a new object and meaning - such
De Beer perceives the world in spectacular colors and in a wider as “hanging fields,” “garbage flower,” “plastiflora”
spectrum than is customary in the formal world of art. This is (colored garden beds made from plastic bottles placed in
evident in his work, which includes: taking an abandoned quarry the center of the town), and others.
and turning it into an awesome work site; creating a series of De Beer was educated at the Kunst Academy of

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