Duke Riley once made pigeons dance in front of the Manhattan skyline, now the US artist has turned garbage from the sea off New York into art. The “Death to the Living, Long Live Trash” exhibition, scheduled to open tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum, features dozens of objects. For example, Riley, who was born in 1972, decorated found plastic bottles or combined found objects into mosaics.
“It’s the irony of a maritime museum where most of the exhibits are made out of garbage — and maybe a glimpse into the future,” said Riley, who hails from Boston and now lives in the Brooklyn borough of New York, during a preview yesterday of the dpa. “I’ve been on the water for years and I see how plastic waste has increased and how other things, like glass and seashells, are much less common.” The show is scheduled to run until April 23.
Riley has already made headlines with several art actions. In 2016, for example, he had around 2,000 pigeons with LED lights on their claws soar in the evening sky over New York’s East River for several weeks.
