Aleix Fontsere Sant Hipólit de Voltregà, 1962 www.aleixfontsere.cat

Aleix was born in 1962, in . His father was a blacksmith and therefore he grew up surrounded by iron, welding, forging ... From a young age he began to work as a plumber in a workshop. He is self-taught as he has no art studies, all he has learned is what his father has taught him and the creativity he has acquired. In his region the Carnival of Torelló is very popular and during many years he created different coaches with a group of friends. In addition, he has created a company called Andròmines, of games made with recycled materials, which are all designed and made by him. After a few years, due to an accident, he had plenty of time, and his artistic vein was awakened. He began to create sculptures out of waste material. First small, and little by little, they have been growing. He has created a series called Animalada that is composed of different animals. He aims his sculptures to be realistic, for this reason, the majority, like the El Cavall, are real size.

El cavall 2016 210 x 240 x 85 cm Used horseshoes

El gall cantador 2016 50 x 50 x 20 cm Forks and spoons

Bill Miller Cleveland, 1962 www.billmillerart.com

Miller creates recycled linoleum assemblages that use only the found surface to recreate their subjects, without added paint. Their images range from bucolic landscapes to surrealist, fiercely political pieces, often based on iconic images of the news and pop culture that have fuelled the collective memory of our society. His unexpected use of familiar patterns is nourished by the nostalgic qualities of his medium, which conveys a sense of personal history and rediscovery in each piece. Miller's commissioned work includes two covers of posthumous Frank Zappa albums and the 2012 poster of the Woodstock Film Festival. His work has been exhibited in England, , Australia and the USA, among others in the cafeteria of the American Visionary Art Museum. He has reviews in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, as well as being included in several books on recycled art such as Found Object Art 2 and ReTrash.

Strange Fruit (after Schiele) 2016 122 x 122cm Vintage Linoleum recuperated from the floorings of old houses

David Tarancón Pérez , 1967

From 1985 to 1990 David studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. In 2008 he participated in the initial nucleus of the network of self-organized groups of creation in contemporary art and thought, Kanîbal'hopox. In 2012 he began working as a drawing teacher at the Vinyet Institute in , where he continues to be today.

Desorden mundial 2016 181 x 154 Cm. Matress, needles

La caja de Pandora 2016 27,5 x 27 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Medusa 2016 25 x 25 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Cancerbero 2016 27 x 25 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Saturno 2017 25 x 20 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Prometeo 2017 22 x 28 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Mito, logos 2017 17 x 26 cm Hawaian flip-flops, cloth

Dolo Navas Gorliz, 1966 www.dolonavas.com

Born in the Basque Country, Dolo Navas currently lives in . She is a visual artist, designer and educator. Her work revolves around recycling and nature since twenty years. She has received important prizes like the Gure Artea grants of the Vizcaya City council, Bilbao Arte, Arteleku, and has realized numerous individual and collective exhibitions. She has participated in Drap-Art’s the recycling marathons in Barcelona in the nineties, in three editions of the Braderie de l'Art in Roubaix (France) and also in the 3 editions of the Restcycling Art Festival in Berlin. She is a member of the Iruña recycling collective and of El Safareig in Ripoll.

"yo piel" 2017 Silk corset, natural organdie silk, sheep wool, turkey feathers and LEDs

"yo piel" 2017 Silk bra, pure silk, sheep wool and LEDs

Genis Hernández

For more than 15 years Genís has decorated and adapted music bars in Sitges for the themes of events, such as the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Sitges Theatre Festival, popular and traditional events such as Carnival and Christmas, always making use of recycled materials. During the time he spent in Madrid, he made exhibitions with cardboard and paper materials in places like the Monosabio and the Niña Isabel Theatre under the titles Angels and Demons and Dangerous Friends. From the beginning he was one of the outstanding members of the Sarruga company that is specialized in making animations in which paper is the basic material. He made an Exhibition of cava cartons and panels of appliances under the title Exhibition Marines in the restaurant Xarel·lo in the street of Carrera in Sitges. He also exhibited in Bar El Raval in Barcelona, a renowned meeting point of actors and "people of the underground of the world of theatre" under the title Acrylics. He exhibited watercolours and acrylics at Janio's Bar in Sitges. He exhibited the series Binomios that put in value creativity and the local talent of Sitges, in the Cultural Centre Miramar.

H Moyano Menorca, 1976 hmoyanotheoffcialchannel.blogspot.com

Moyano studied in the School of Arts and Crafts of Mahón. He graduated in Fine Arts and did his training in Pedagogical Skills, CAP, in Barcelona. A contemporary multidisciplinary visual artist of international trajectory, he started to paint from a young age and worked on different techniques continuously since adolescence. He has exhibited his works in New York, New Delhi, Singapore, Korea, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Mallorca and Minorca, among others. He currently lives and works between Mahón, Barcelona and New York. The influence of the Internet is important in his evolution as well as his collaborations with other artists such as Diego Vasallo, Roser Amills or Mano Creazión, Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca, Ulises Pistolo, Cuco Suárez, Marinah, Max Moya (Ojos de Brujo), Kumar Sublevao, Beato & Mí Arma, among others.

Black Butterfly Loves 2016 81 x 19 x 8 cm Mixed technique on skateboard

Magnetic Couple 2016 81 x 19 x 8 cm Mixed technique on skateboard

Hamed Ouattara – Out of Africa Gallery Burkina Faso

Furniture designer Hamed Ouattara has been engaged in art for twenty years and is one of Burkina Faso's best-known designers, thanks to his particular style of transforming metal. Located 800 meters away from the SIAO (International Craft Hall of Ouagadougou), his workshop looks like a beehive, where the noises of the hammering compete with those of the tools that polish the metal. With only 40 years of age, Hamed Ouattara currently exports his furniture to Algeria, Spain, France, the United States, Germany, Denmark and other parts of the world.

Mueble Soundiata 2016 122 x 40cm Metal recovered from barrels of lubricants

Hombre López Barcelona, 1971 www.hombrelopez.com

With the pseudonym Hombrelópez, Daniel Lopez Montanés works in design and visual projects. From 1988 to 1998 he studied art, design and photography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa and Graphic Design and Art at the EINA School of Design and Art in Barcelona. After graduating in 1998, he moved to Minorca, where he currently lives and creates his works of art. In the last three years we can highlight his participation in various collective projects. In 2011 he participates in Caralibro, in Loring Art, Barcelona; in M2 in Sa Fábrica, Mahón; We Love Colors, urban art in KKKB, Barcelona; Print The Fabric! in Sa Fábrica. In 2012 he participates in the exhibition Games to Reunite, at Vidrart Gallery, Ciutadella, and at the Weart Festival in Barcelona. In 2013, he exhibited at the Asia Contemporary Art Show at the Fernando Alcolea Gallery with The Magnificent Ladies in Hong Kong. In 2014 he develops the Supervillain Voodoo project, along with his sister Ana López. The 6 Supervillains were exhibited in the Festival Pronóstica in August of 2014, in Mahón. The collection then grew to 12 Supervillains, which were exhibited at Drap-Art'14.

Cherilyn Guenroe 2016 99 x 70 cm Paint on wood

Monarcaman 40 x 40 x 10 cm Mixed media

Urdangarin 40 x 40 x 10 cm Mixed media

Imanol Ossa Zumaia, 1966 www.imanolossa.com

Ossa studied interior design at the EINA School of Art and Design in Barcelona. In 1995 he began to work in the artistic field, mainly with the reutilization of everyday objects and light. He likes to play with cutlery, plates, cups, bike parts and batteries. Here he presents a piece of unique design made with piano hammers. This piece maintains the original movement of the hammers, to achieve a certain musicality, playing with the memory of the material. The work itself is totally handcrafted, both the welding of the metal structure as the cleaning and the treatment of the hammers with soap, to avoid corrosive processes that might harm the wood.

Medusa 2013 35 x 35 x 22 Wall lamp created from piano hammers, iron structure, silver dome and light bulb

Drum Sobremesa

2017 60 x 20 x 15cm Desk lamp created from the drum of a battery, electrical installation and light bulb

Jana Álvarez Torrelavega (Cantàbria), 1966

Jana Álvarez is a multidisciplinary artist with training in Fine Arts and Fashion Design, with a wide trajectory of exhibitions, national and international, individual and collective. She also has long professional experience as a designer, illustrator, prop master and costume designer for several fashion brands, (Purificación García, Antonio Miro, Custo Barcelona), cinema, T.V. and advertising (TV3 and the production companies Zeppelin, Boca Films, and Lee Films). She participates in Drap-Art’s activities from the beginning, both as an artist, workshop conductor, illustrator and lecturer. In the work she presents here, she reflects on the human being as a devastating and ethically dual element. We say that we "estimate nature" and build on it, but we pollute it and devastate it, so as not to lose our comforts ... who are we? Where are we going? Do we long for something? Do we at least stop to think about it, as we advance in an endless race, destroying everything?

Dream Triptych 2017 82 x 62 cm Mixed media, eggshells, threads, electronic residues and plastic on newspaper, remains of canvas and table.

Jordi Estivill Barcelona, 1959

Pictures made with fragments of wood, found objects, papers, cartons, old tools or any other recycled material that draws the artist's attention to its shape, texture or colour. Elements that acquire value and significance when they are treated, joined and combined to discover unforeseen qualities, constructive solutions in which command the concert and orchestration of tones, values, colours, forms, volume harmonies, rhythms and balances to obtain compositions of an artistic ensemble, in order to transmit a poetic message, surrounded by musicality.

Jordi studied Art at the Massana Art School in Barcelona and a Monographic of Sculpture and Modelling technique at the School of Art Llotja. He works in painting, sculpture and above all explores the technique of collage and assemblage, where he finds his most personal and characteristic way of expression, using a diversity of recycled materials such as wood, cardboard, found objects, and others.

Mar 2016 60 x 60 cm Mixed media, assemblage, woods, objects, and acrylics

Torero 2016 60 x 60 cm Mixed media, assemblage, woods, objects, and acrylics

Jordi López-Alert , 1971

López-Alert holds a degree in Fine Arts and a degree in Library Science and Documentation from the University of Barcelona. His interest in the environment, industrial society, the landscape, and everything that surrounds, affects and conditions the life of human kind, are constant in his work. No caducity: reenvasant emocions (No caducity: repacking emotions) is a series of works in which the artist challenges the consumer society, while summoning it in favour of the natural environment; A poetic and contemporary view of the human being before nature. In the creative process, the containers used have been manipulated and intervened with ink, spray, paint, etc. to become works of art. Unique works in which the process of manual creation and the monster of industrial production coexist.

Cercant el demà (No caducity: reenvasant emocions Series) 2016 30 x 22 cm. Box of food and ink

Negre nit (No caducity: reenvasant emocions Series) 2015 45 x 29 cm. Box of cookies, ink and paint

Jordi Torrent Barcelona, 1958

Jordi Torrent lives on horseback between Barcelona and Formentera. In addition to his creative writing (he has just published his first novel, entitled The Orphan of the Boisanzon) he is interested in the interrelations of living beings, amongst each other and with their environment, for this reason he founded and co-directed the Posidonia Festival of art and ecology, from 2010 to 2013, on the island of Formentera. He is also a founding member of Drap-Art and works as a visual creator with found materials.

Mentiría si dijera…. 2014 60 x 60.5 cm Pieces of old furniture, paint, and varnish

Jorge Espirito Santo Rio de Janeiro, 1963

Jorge Espirito Santo holds a Master of the Arts from Goldsmiths College, London, and a Bachelor from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUEDO. He is TV director and photographer and lives in Rio de Janeiro. Given the urgency of the problem of deforestation of the Atlantic Forest in the world, mainly in Brazil and especially in the Amazon, due to the commercial exploitation of wood, in this work, Balance, Espirito Santo proposes to reflect on the strength and balance we have to make when we think about the conscious use of wood. Therefore, the whole work is related to wood: from the photo printed on recycled wood sheets (Ipê, an almost extinct type of wood) and the hundreds of wooden buttons used to dress the model.

Balance 2015 105 x 70 cm Photo printed on recycled wood and adorned with buttons

Léo Piló Belo Horizonte, 1955 www.leopilo.com.br

This artist and tailor has worked for many years in the creation of clothing and accessories and has developed several collections of "art to wear". Currently, in addition to his artistic work, he is active in different themes: landscapes, accessories and costumes for theatre, dance, circus and carnival. He is also responsible for the artistic training and implementation of an income generation system for the ASMARE Cultural Association of Paper Cardboard and Waste Pickers, from Belo Horizonte. It is a social project that has been rescuing families at risk through creative recycling for more than a decade.

Carmen Miranda 2011 30 x 50 cm Collage of materials with relief and objects found in wooden box

Teodora, 2011 31 x 52 x 12 cm Collage of materials with relief and objects found in wooden box

Olinda 2011 28 x 28 x 10 cm Collage of materials with relief and objects found in wooden box

Little Shilpa Mumbai www.littleshilpa.com

Little Shilpa works for international brands and regularly participates in the London Fashion Week, as well as the Design Weeks of Paris and Milan, among others. Her personal work emulates the spirit of India today; it is about the contrast of the past and the present through portraits of the common people and objects from the streets of Mumbai, which somehow define the city. "The spirit of the Monster of Mumbai lives on small things: street toys, road clothes, pavement bookstores, etc. This is a spirit of fusion and fetish: madly creative, instantly inventive, and strangely rare. Screams through concrete and tar, metal and glass, maddening crowds and howls of traffic, these are the angels that force you to live. These objects of desire, full of life force, seduce you like a seductive slut under a bridge, behind the corner of a street, inside the subway ... Pimps on local traffic signs and trains, parks and beaches, etc. at disposable prices, rejecting their pretension and shining brightly with the pride of Mumbai. These pieces are inspired and created with small jewels chosen throughout my many adventures around the city. These become the adornments of the goddesses of Mumbai - our protective angels. They are armours". Here are some photos of pieces from her Mumbadevi Goddess series.

Paper Cones 2007-2008 Photograph of Paper Cones Costume

Helmet 2007-2008 Photograph of helmets with motorcycle mirrors and lights

Rubber slippers 2007-2008 Photograph of headdresses and shoulder ornaments made out of flip-flops

Llorenç Garcia Isanda Barcelona, 1987

Born in Barcelona, Llorenç graduated as a sculptor at the Joso School of drawing and at the BDN Workshop and as an industrial modeller from the Llotja School of Art. Little by little, he has directed his creativity towards artistic recycling and wood carving, to create unique pieces of artisan elaboration. He creates his works by recycling found materials and carving wood to obtain suggestive volumes and purified forms based on the observation of the elements of nature. Here he presents a series of sculptures realized recovering parts of old chairs, crutches and found woods, combined with other materials. These sculptures focus on fish, since the materials found are reminiscent of their stylized forms, beyond a naturalistic representation.

Radiografia d’un peix 2016 120 x 35 x 15cm Assemblage of parts of chairs, bicycle spikes, pool cue, carved head of made out of recycled wood

Peix Vela 2016 160 x 100 x 42 cm Assemblage of wooden crutch, bamboo mat, hangers, carved head made out of recycled wood

Marie Lalo Canada www.marielalo.com

It is during her stays in Montreal, Paris and Barcelona that Marie Lalo began to collect all kinds of papers. Papers with which she has created her own technique of "painting on paper" that she improves, according to the whim of her inspirations. "I like the idea of creating a new life for discarded papers. Follow the route of an old magazine discarded in a storeroom of Montreal and see her take the form of a virgin or a sailor in my workshop in Sitges". Recycling in her work is the opportunity to give a second life to paper, celebrating art.

J’aurais tant aimé 2016 46 x 63 cm Collage

Clair de lune 2015 70 x 90 cm Collage

Omar Jaime Lambayeque, 1977

Musician, goldsmith, sculptor and researcher of ancient silver jewellery techniques, Omar was born on the northern coast of Peru. He also studies the interpretation of mythology and the ancient iconography of his country. He usually lives between Spain and Peru, but recently spent a year travelling in Asia and northern Europe, where he has taught music therapy with the Hang, a newly created instrument. He has founded a house-school of handicrafts for street children in Peru, totally independent, counting only on the help of his family, to build the house and maintain the children, although now damaged by the floods of this spring. He is currently investigating the artistic possibilities of old keys, and from this study some of the pieces presented in this show are born.

Falcón 2016 50 x 40 x 15 cm Keys

Calavera 2016 38 x 35 x 6 cm Keys, spoons, mineral stones and wild boar teeth

Alien 2016 35 x 6 cm Spoons and forks

Orson Buch Paris, 1967

Born in 1967, in Paris, as the son of German artists, Orson grew up on the island of Formentera between 1970 and 1982. He then returned to Paris to finish his studies and currently lives there, although he also spends time in Formentera and La Pobla de Benifassar, Castellón. His first solo exhibition was held in New York in 1988. Since then he has exhibited in France, Germany and Spain. In addition to painting, since his trip to Senegal, he creates sculptures with cans, representing animals with a minimal intervention of materials, respecting part of the original object.

Banco de peces 2008 - 2016 Variable measurements Installation of tin can fish

Quim Rifà Barcelona, 1974 www.quimrifa.net

Quim made his first creative work in the Torelló Carnival, making costumes and participating in the Sculpture contest with materials from the village garbage market. Later he studied Sculpture at the Industrial School and Pau Gargallo School. He attended the sculpture workshops of Mariano Andrés Vilella and Frederic Gómez Cardella. In 2008 he spent some time as a residence artist in Berlin, where he began experimenting with recycled materials. When he returned to Catalonia, he participated during two years in the Drap-Art Festival and in 2012 he won the Residu'Art prize in the Emerging Artist category. He also participated in the travelling exhibit Drap-Art: Nothing Disappears, Everything Transforms, organized with the Cervantes Institute in China and Japan. In 2015 Rifà collaborated with the collective Müll and the ceramist Sergi Pahissa in the International Festival of Ceramics, and exhibited at the Urgell Civic Centre, Palo Alto Market, Manlleu Art Gallery.

Avestruz 2010 80 x 80 x 170 cm Handwash, tap, rake

Rafael Arroyo Gijón, 1957 www.rafael-arroyo.com

Arroyo began his studies of art in Gijón, in the Workshop of Alexander Mieres and with the Artist group of Gijón. He moved to Barcelona very young. Here he discovered the possibilities of enamel in art. He studied enamel techniques at several artists' workshops, at Llotja School of Art and Design, and worked for different jewellers. He has won several awards such as the New Materials Integration Award of Tokyo (2009) and has exhibited at various international shows. Marine Creatures is a project that aims to reflect on the process of degradation suffered by the marine environment. These beings arise from the fusion of a variety of materials that we could consider scrap metal, through a very old and traditional technique such as fire enamel on metal, connected since ancient times to jewellery and luxury objects. In this way, Arroyo transforms what the consumer society has discarded and despised into unique objects, denouncing the culture of waste, responsible for the tons of waste that damage the fragile marine ecosystems.

Creatura Marina Barbada 2012 24 x 28 x 19 cm Fire enamel on metal and wood

Creatura Marina Argentada 2012 30 x 33 x 18 cm Fire enamel on metal and wood

Creatura Marina Barbada 2012 24 x 28 x 19 cm Fire enamel on metal and wood

Ramiro Sobral Buenos Aires, 1972 www.elciclo.com

Ramiro Sobral was born in Buenos Aires, but lived most of his life in Tucumán, Argentina. From an early age he was lucky enough to have a bicycle, the first of countless bicycles. After living in different places he arrived in Barcelona in 2007. He worked in different activities and his means of transportation was always the bicycle. In 2010 he made a trip to Estepona, Malaga, without a map but with his two wheels. Then he started fixing bicycles at home and in 2013 he decided to open his workshop, El Ciclo, in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. It is here that he had the idea of using the innumerable pieces of bicycles that he had been keeping during some time to decorate his store. He began making lamps combining various parts of wheels. In this way, his motivation to recycle the pieces of bikes was born and to create his collection, Bikes that saw the light.

Globo 2016 80 x 80 x 80 cm Bicycle parts

SystemDesignStudio Barcelona, 2009 www.systemdesignstudio.com

SystemDesignStudio was founded in 2009, in Barcelona, by the architect Helbert Suárez and the industrial designer Remi Melander. Their designs have been selected for events such as Interior Design in Vancouver in 2009, Dwell on Design in Los Angeles in 2010, Valencia Design Week, also in 2010, CasaDecor in Barcelona in 2010 and 2011, Milan Design Week in 2012, London Design Festival in 2012, Beijing Design Week in 2013 and the International New Media Art Festival in Hong Kong in 2014. In the field of recycling, SystemDesignStudio has received awards such as the Inhabitat Spring Greening Contest in the USA in 2010, and has been a finalist for the 2010 Recycling Design Award in Germany and the Design Award for Recycling, awarded by the Waste Agency of Catalonia, in Barcelona, in 2009 and 2011.

Got a light 2010 10 x 55 x 50 cm Empty lighters inserted in an acrylic base

Toni Riera Lleida, 1974 ninotsdentonet.blogspot.com

Toni Riera has lived in Minorca for 11 years. He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Minorca, Barcelona and Lerida. He has also worked on the construction of stage sets for theatre and shop window decoration. After 10 years recovering materials that the sea returns to the beaches of Minorca, he has abandoned the sea for the container: Currently he works on a new art project, always with the concept of recycling, looking for waste materials, obsolete objects and curiosities, abandoned in the street, in front of the container, or satisfying his curiosity in markets and second-hand stores; abandoned objects that having lost their function will be part of a new piece with another story to explain.

Síndrome después de una mala noticia o alopecia repentina! 2014 59 x 20 x 10 cm aprox Installation with a plate, photo and human hair

…de cuando Kitty se fue A Hong Kong! Sèrie Souvenirs! 2014 59 x 15 x 10 cm aprox Installation of a plate and objects

...vaya par de perras, Lassie! 2014 59 x 22 x 15 cm aprox Installation of a plate and objects

...don’t cry for my cocacola, bonita! 2014 59 x 22 x 15 cm aprox Installation of a plate and objects

…Minorca is diferent Patricio! Sèrie Souvenirs! 2014 59 x 22 x 15 cm aprox Installation of a plate and objects

Vittorio Villa Santiago de Chile, 1963 vittoriomarcelo.blogspot.com

Vittorio Villa is an eclectic artist residing in Barcelona, whose creations lead him to identify with various disciplines such as design, set design, drawing, painting, collage and poetry. His vital purpose is to reflect and put into play his spiritual reserves, through his works, trying to contribute new meanings through a graphic, pictorial and manual transformation. He uses the street, travel, and nature as a creative store-room, composing a new piece and an old one at once.

Cielo Asfixiado 2014-2015 210 x 170 cm Old wooden frames, fabrics, cardboard, mouldings, acrylic paint, reused plastic