12/21/2004: Bread sculpture

The IotD never misses an opportunity to highlight art made of food. From the full story:

The work, simply called Bed, was made from 8,000 slices from which the sculptor, Antony Gormley, carefully ate away his own imprint. The result is the size of a normal double bed, with two hollow human shapes.

If anyone other than the Emperor had worn the Emperor's new clothes no one would have deluded themselves.

But, I'll say this for the guy - the haircut/glasses/black shirt and intellectually assertive pose really work together to create a certain [insert French word frequently uttered at cocktail parties here] which does have the effect of making me want to stroke my goatee and quietly nod as opposed to thinking that if he filled one impression with Skippy and the other with Smuckers that it would make a nice centerpeice at Wonderbread's annual shareholder's meeting.

Looks like some of the bread is already getting pretty moldy. This pile of crap is going to smell pretty bad soon.

Oh, and (obligatory high-thinking, hoity-toity aesthetic comment in English)!

what, no atkin's jokes?

bread sculpture

This is Mr Gormley's contribution to the North East of England where I live.

It is sited right next to the motorway and is known locally as the Gateshead flasher though I cannot think why

http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/angel/pics2.htm

I suppose in the right light it looks like a gent holding his trench coat open to reveal his shortcomings.

Public art projects like that typically annoy me.

I didn't realize the Brits had that problem too.

(the last such thing I actually thought was cool was Picasso's monkey in Chicago, but then, hey, it's Picasso)

One great thing about this "work of Art" (heehee), You would never get kicked out of bed for eating crackers............

uhm.....not only did he eat his wife out in bed, he ate himself out?

This guy has nothing on Janine Antoni: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/...ews11-14-8.asp
http://www.risd.edu/about_profiles.c..._profile_2.cfm

Also, I am sure I've eaten enough bread to qualify as a bread sculpture myself.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad The IotD never misses an opportunity to highlight art made of food. From the full story: The work, simply called Bed, was made from 8,000 slices from which the sculptor, Antony Gormley, carefully ate away his own imprint. The result is the size of a normal double bed, with two hollow human shapes.

It probably cost him a lot of dough to make.

Art? Gormley eats it.

And that chocolate lump has a $22,000 price on it. That better be the GOOD chocolate and not a remelted chunk of miscellaneous Hershey's.

I want to see an art exhibit done with soup. Not the soup cans, but the soup itself. Call it "Hearty".

the chocolate lump might be cool if it actually looked like something... an animal or flower, or ass (where it all ends up eventually anyway )

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Originally Posted by LabRat the chocolate lump might be cool if it actually looked like something... an animal or flower, or ass (where it all ends up eventually anyway )

Boring! He should have used caviar. Or Velveeta. Now that would have been Art.

Another sign of the impending, unavoidable Apocalypse: Someone just used 'Velveeta' and 'Art' in proximity. Wake up, America!

impending, unavoidable Apocalypse

Wake up, America

hmmm. youve all gone from some guy eating too much bed to the apocalypse. im tired, im going back to bread

Of course Velveeta is Art. It is a radical statement about the commodification of food, made to resemble actual food. Che could have told you that.