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Edible humans

Csurka Eszter – bread-sculpture action

2003. október 19.

Budapesti Õszi Fesztivál / Fogyasztható mûvészet – ZabArt

Várfok Galéria

Photos by Sárközi Csaba

During a whole day, under a tent big pieces of dough are stretched on steel frame shaping mans, womans and children then they are place in furnace to be baked. When the bread persons are baked well the public start to consume step by step, so all what remain are the steel wire frames.

It can be interpreted as a human being, who has a rigid frame covered with this living hot material – bread. It has it’s on life till it is consumed by itself.

At the same time it can be viewed as a relation between sacred and profane, between the artwork as creation and the consumer who eagerly wants to own everything if is possible inside him. After destruction he realizes what have he done.

The text is translated by me from Encz Sarolta’s text written in Balkon – contemporary art magazine Hungary

Bread and salt

Mircea Cantor – Stranieri

Exhibited in Roma – Magazzino d’Arte Moderna

2007 dec. 15

Hard to translate the title of the work “Stranieri“. It means something like a:  foreigner, stateless, homeless, fugitive, hobo, beggar, junkie, vagabond…

Bread wrapped with money

Mladen Stilinović – Works with food

object  -  1978 -2009,

artist born in Belgrade. Lives in Zagreb
exhibition: 11′th International Istambul Biennial

“Since the mid-1970s, Mladen Stilinović has developed artistic strategies using ‘poor’ materials. His works are simple in their execution and engage with such subjects as pain, poverty, death, power and the language of repression, as ongoing and mutually connected conditions. Usually the title is inscribed into the work itself, for example, in a series dealing with food: Geometry for the poor, Cabbage, Borecole, Potato, Bean, Leek, Corn, Cakes, I bite myself, I devour myself, Eat yourself, Bite yourself and Charge, cakes!” – text source

photo credit: Estefán Arnold

Cross in Bread

Előd Izsák – Cross in Bread ( “Kenyerbe vetett kereszt” – from  hungarian)

video installation -  2006

exhibited in Oradea – Transylvania/Romania

bread was made by the artist’s mother in Egerpatak – Seklerland/Transylvania/Romania

Under the bread on a TV-screen a loop video can be seen with a rotating cross graved on the bread-crumb.

The bread’s shape reminds us to the millstone. The rotation of the cross reminds us to an increasingly forgotten ancient tradition – the blessing of the bread (in the bread)