Works of recycling art is on display at the exhibition in the Beijing Cervantes Institute, May 24th. [Liu Zhe/China Daily]

BEIJING –Nothing disappears and all can recycle.

An exhibition of recycling art in Beijing Cervantes Institute from May 6 to July 1 attracted many visitors and inspired people to think of their consumption habit.

Recycling art focuses on combining waste pieces together to make them an original work of art. Thanks to artists' creativity, waste pieces, instead of being thrown away, gain new life. Works of recycling art, full of imagination and creativity, prompted the visitors to think if the waste things have value for recycling.

The exhibition spread the concept of recycling art and aroused people to create freely, and more important, it raised the environmental awareness of the public.

Cervantes Institute, which was founded under the support of Spanish government in 2006, is a Spanish culture center located in Beijing.

Inma Gonzalez Puy, director of Cervantes Institute, said that many visitors have come to appreciate those recycling art works."Many parents with their kids are so excited because they think recycling art can teach their kids to cherish and not waste," she said.

Many works on this exhibition were on display in the International Recycling Art Festival of Catalonia, organized by Drap-Art from 2004.

During the past seven years, more than 1000 artists' works have been exhibited on this art festival and more than 100,000 visitors have come to enjoy recycling art.

On this year's Beijing recycling art exhibition, besides the works of Spanish, Catalonian and South American artists, artistic works of Chinese artists, including Liu Guangyun are also showed to the audience.

Liu is a talented Chinese artist whose 4 pieces of recycling art works are exhibited this time. There are almost 40 works of 27 artists shown to the public.