Leo Haz is a contemporary recycling artist from Austria. The artist is using materials that seemingly have no value and turning them into something extraordinary. PET bottles and food packages are just two of the sources that he has transformed into chairs and lamps, recycling these and giving them new life.
His shapes derive from the materials themselves, using their inherent qualities to create a new form. He segments PET bottles into single stripes using a cutter, then heating and melting these together into organic shapes like leaves; he deconstructs PET bottles so that they are just sheets of plastic and foil, shifting these into three-dimensional forms that are reminiscent of nature patterns. Leo Haz developed several techniques out of the immanent features of thermoplastics for which he applied a patent, made for recycling these.
Leo Haz was born in 1981 in Austria.
Axiom, mixed media 53 x 53 x13
