Leo Haz art evolves in a small city in Austria, near the alps. He is specialized in using materials that seemingly have no value and turning them into something extraordinary like contemporary fine art. PET bottles and food package are just two of the sources that he has transformed into chairs and lamps, recycling these and giving them new life.

For Leo Haz, taking something apart is as interesting as making something new. Drawing initial sketches but also working instinctively, he says: “When I’m trying out these materials and testing them, I often start with an initial idea and it fails. But through this failure something else comes. I’m fascinated by this process.”

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 plastik and foil, shifting these into three- dimensional forms that are reminiscent of nature patterns. For him, refuse is about re-use: “I’m interested in how to find the right purpose and the beauty in discarded matter.”

Leo Haz developed several technics out of the immanent features of thermoplastics for which he applied a patent, made for recycling these. 

Please contact him at: office@leohaz.com