Dayton Castleman – BreadBird
bread, steel / 7 x 6 x 4 / 2007
An inquiry as to whether birds would eat bread in the shape of their own. In this case, Chicago pigeons would not.
Crucifixion
Adam Sheldon – Crucifixion
Made for Anglican Church of St PeterGreat Limber – 2010 Jan.
burned toaster bread
Using his toaster, the artist burned every piece of bread before drying them out and flattening them so they were ready to be positioned in a giant frame. He then spent hours scraping the toast with a knife to create the lighter parts of the image, such as Christ’s halo, and a blow torch to create darker patches. (read more here)
Photo: MASONS
Bread museum
In 1955 the first bread museum was born in Ulm as “German Bread Museum”. In 2002,
has been renamed to “Museum of Bread Culture” in order to improve their transformed content. Today, the collection of Museum is about 18,000 pieces from different cultures and many parts of the world. Special interest is the cultural importance of bread from ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean to the rice cultures of Asia…
A special feature of the collection makes the collection of works of visual art. Examples are the outstanding artists such as Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz and Pablo Picasso. Another focus are the paintings of the 17’th Century, with religious and secular works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Flegel, or Frans Francken. Finally, a significant inventory made of contemporary works, demonstrating the extent to which artists like Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Joseph Beuys or Mark Lüpertz have dealt with the issue.
Find out more on their website (german only)
Breadboard
Monika Koziol – Breadboard
Made at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and DesignLondon – 2008 Oct.
wooden with laser etched letters
Breadboard was part of presentation that Monika had to give at the university as her favorite piece of design – she chose bread, as the greatest invention ever. Text on the board links basic ideas of what makes one happy and some facts about bread.
BREAD or ALIVE
BBB Johannes Deimling – BREAD or ALIVE
film (images from his former performances)- 2004
with: with Silja Saarepuu, Villu Plink, Gabriele Avanzinel
Germany, duration: 9:27
“… The Film describes in a surreal way our relation to the simple but important thing: Bread. The artist includes in this film images from his former performances, mixed them with new elements and sounds. The result is a film, that points with humor and strong images on the banal and ordinary nourishment and puts it into the center. … ” (Dr. Eduard Fried)
Edible humans
Csurka Eszter – bread-sculpture action
2003. október 19 / Budapesti Őszi FesztiválFogyasztható művészet – ZabArt / Várfok Galéria
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.
Photos by Sárközi Csaba
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
Louise Fresco on TED
Louise Fresco – Feeding the whole world
2009 Feb.TED – ted.com18 minute talk
“Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods”- ted.com
She’s talk was very unilateral, and she missed a lot of details, and that’s why there are a lot of interesting comments.
Here are some good comments:
“Stop buying mass produced bread that somehow have 15-20 ingredients instead of: flour, yeast, water ,salt and whatever niceness you feel like putting in it.” – Karl Andre Bru/source,TED
“Well said! I wonder how much this womam was paid to give this talk? As you say bread has only four ingredients. Ideally they should be organic as other wheat is sprayed I don’t know how many times and retains the dangerous toxins in the valuable bran layers. White bread is a non food in fact a consultant surgeon friend of ours actually called it poison. People who eat white bread are likely to supper from diverticular disease caused by constipation and ultimately they may even get cancer of the bowl which is the chemical manifestation of constipation.” – Neville Gay/source,TED
“Wonderbread(white sliced bread) may be a good solution in an underdeveloped country where people are starving to death. In the Land of Choice (a/k/a USoA), the qualitative difference between the white bread and whole grain virtually punches you in the face…” – AJ/ source nextnature
“…the point is still very valid – that population growth will only be aggravated by having more food available. Though not the most humanitarian perspective. It’s a very likely and unfortunate case.” – meemers542 / source – YouTube
Croissant animation
Murányi Matza Teréz – Croissant with Victor Antonescu
Student of Partium ChristianUniversity
Oradea/Partium/Romania
Made for MAFF (Metrion Animation Film Festival)
Bread Chair
I am waiting for somebody to invent the hot-dog bed, till then have a sit on a slice of bread.
images source
Bread and salt
Mircea Cantor – Stranieri
Exhibited in Roma – Magazzino d’Arte Moderna2007 dec. 15
Hard to translate the title of the work “Stranieri“. It means something like a: foreigner, stateless, homeless, fugitive, hobo, beggar, junkie, vagabond…
