Taiwan: artworks made out of car components on display

Hoping to raise awareness about global warming, Taiwanese artists staged an exhibition featuring art works made out of car components.One hundred more art creations will be made by September next year, each with a car component, to convey messages of environmental concerns by decomposing cars, one of the major sources of carbon pollution. Lao Tsu Say, a Taiwan based brand marketing company, donated a Bentley car for the exhibition and invited 100 artists around the world to join the effort. At a news conference launching the project, six art pieces were displayed, with the artist using the colour red to represent the conflict between carbon pollution and the environment. Another piece showed exhaust pipes beside transparent human figures representing the intrusion of cars in a clean natural habitat. The most talked about work of art at the exhibit was a Bentley with its engine removed and replaced by a tree.The project is part of the response to the Copenhagen Climate Agreement to be signed in December 2009, and also to a photography exhibition to be hosted in Denmark on 100 places to remember before they disappear. The completed art projects will be sold for charity in 2010.