"IF Van GOGH WERE ALIVE TODAY, WOULD HE PAINT WITH PAINTS AND PAINCELS? OR WOULD YOU USE PLASTIC AS A SOURCE OF CREATION?"
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Ministry of Culture and C6 Bank present:
"Natureza Plástica", by Eduardo Srur , an expanded art project with socio-environmental responsibility that transforms and inspires the eyes of hundreds of children and teachers. Since 2022, the project has served more than 10,000 elementary school students and teachers in Unified Educational Centers (CEUs) in the capital of São Paulo and in schools in the interior of São Paulo.

The artist's main objective is to promote environmental education and awareness in the public school system through art, offering activities that include lectures, formative meetings, creative workshops, immersive experiences with cutting-edge technology, urban interventions and visual exhibitions.

The project invites students to recreate, collectively and using plastic waste, iconic works from the history of art by greats such as Van Gogh, Tarsila do Amaral, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and Monet, among others. The resulting productions are then exhibited to the school community, alongside some of Srur's own works, highlighting environmental education in line with the educational and cultural practices of educational institutions.

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Since 2008 Srur has dedicated his career to teaching art and connecting the public with educational actions and attention to young people as a complement to his actions, interventions and artistic installations in public spaces.

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations, states. "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific progress and its benefits."