Chinese Art Teacher Uses Industrial Waste Metal to Create Sculptures

Just as one person's trash is another person's treasure, a college art teacher from Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxi Province, is using industrial waste metal to create sculptures.

The 40-year-old Huang Qicai uses waste metals as the building blocks for his masterpieces. Huang has completed more than 200 iron sculptures over a decade, with roughly half of them having been sold.

"This horse sculpture is called The Last Unicorn. It weighs about half a ton and uses over 500 metal parts. Its hooves come from a discarded pommel horse. The double-fold eyelids make it more female. And here I put an old kitchen knife and wrench to form part of its body," said Huang

Huang Qicai used to make iron sculptures in Beijing. Since returning to his hometown, he rented a farmyard in order to continue making his sculptures. As a frequent visitor to local recycling centers, Huang has spent almost all of his earnings buying waste metal parts totaling hundreds of thousands of yuan.

"I believe every waste metal part contains the wisdom of its designers. They are works of art as they are. I want to use them to create something new, and make them alive again," he said.

Huang believes his sculptures bear witness to China's rapid and ongoing industrialization.

"The number of cars in China has increased rapidly in recent years, which has exacerbated problems like traffic congestion and air pollution. So I've used lots of scrap metal from old cars in my sculptures to mark the industrial age," said the art teacher.

Huang Qicai has recently been working on the 12 animal heads sculptures from traditional Chinese culture. He plans to include more cultural elements in his future works, and he also hopes to make mega sculptures as symbols for China's cities.
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