Category: Object

Bread on Earth

Lexie Smith – Bread on Earth
Queens, NY

Bread on Earth is a publishing platform supporting the diverse dialogues that stem from our relationship to grain, in Lexie’s words: “I research bread and write about it.

Portrait with Lexie Smith with a bread work

I also place it into non-traditional visual contexts as a means of calling attention, catalyzing diverse dialogues. I occasionally make bread into sculptures and photographs, and am building a website and community surrounding it. That initiative is called: Bread on Earth”

Improvisational bread shaping as therapy.
Via Instagram

Here is the website Bread on Earth
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Check her website with other bread-works made by her

Fast Food Trump

Asier Sanz-Fast Food Trump
International Biennial of Humor,2018

Donald Trump made in a shape of a burgerThe Spanish caricaturist (Bilbao, 1969), who has now achieved worldwide fame, also won the public prize for the 29th edition of the International Biennial of Humor in Art.

The highly sought after illustrator of books and the official journalist of the newspaper “Diario”, won the match thanks to the unanimous approval of the voters with his caricature for recognizing the non-physiognomic character of the work and for the irreverent play on the Donald misunderstanding – Mac Donald.

Visit the artist’s website and the site of International Biennial of Humor

Mermaid Toast

Adeline Waugh – “Mermaid” and “Unicorn” toast

Going by names such as “Mermaid” and “Unicorn” toast, these colorful treats are just as healthy for you as they’re beautiful. Made by food blogger Adeline Waugh, the vivid colors of pink, purple, and blue are created from good-for-you ingredients like beet juice, turmeric, spirulina, and blueberry powder.

mermaid toast
Mermaid toast

unicorn toast
Unicorn toast

Read the full article here.

I’m obsessed with bread

Isabelle Frances McGuire – There is always someone working harder than you. I am that someone
Dead dough, shrink plastic, June bug. 2017.

McGuire prints “There will always be someone working harder than you” in small text, jammed into a frame made out of thin loaves of bread. The message seems to allude to capitalist culture’s relentless demand to always work harder, but at the bottom of the frame is a line written in the same font, “I am that someone,” an indication that McGuire’s frustrations are directed as much inward as at the culture in general.

Isabelle Frances McGuire, There Is Always Someone Working Harder Than You. I Am That Someone, 2017

“I’m obsessed with bread, but the part of bread that I’m obsessed with is the science behind it: how yeast and bacteria can assist our lives,” McGuire says. “I use bread and yeast and sugar on the glass so that it will transform the piece into something else.”

Read the full article here.

Skips

Gavin Turk – Transubstantiation
Ready-made, 2017

Partnering with the London-based Skip Gallery, an improvised gallery space inside a huge waste container you usually see on the side of the street filled with construction rubble and whatnot, Turk has created a tongue-in-cheek piece that is, among all things, very meta.

Inside the skip – a place to dispose of rubbish – we see a packet of Skips prawn cocktail, a popular snack in the UK. According to the artist, the chips reminded him of the sacramental bread used in the ritual of Eucharist by Roman Catholics.

http://www.konbini.com/us/inspiration/gavin-turk-skip-gallery-contemporary-art/

    Bread Castings

    Lucy + Jorge Orta
    2016

    The exhibition will examine the artists’ practice in the context of the major concerns of the 21st century: species loss, food security and food waste in the face of world population increase. Arts organisation Metal has curated the show which brings together key works by Lucy + Jorge on the theme created over the last twenty years. Lucy + Jorge will also be displaying new sculptures inspired by The Harvest Meal… read more

    bread castings