The Cellar - 12/21/2004: Bread sculpture

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It probably cost him a lot of dough to make.

Art? Gormley eats it. :)

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

This guy has nothing on Janine Antoni: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/...ews11-14-8.asp

I suppose that what makes that qualify as art is that she didn't eat the whole block of chocolate.

The title says "gnawed", which does imply that it was not actually eaten.

I wonder if there is a second installation called "spat".

I didn't read through her stuff enough to see if there were any photographs of the artist, but if she's typical of the art-y set, she's anorexic, so even if she did actually eat the chocolate, I expected she puked it up later.

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".

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Originally Posted by wolf

I didn't read through her stuff enough to see if there were any photographs of the artist, but if she's typical of the art-y set, she's anorexic, so even if she did actually eat the chocolate, I expected she puked it up later.

Here she is...
http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohe...ber/janine.jpg

http://www.albrightknox.org/acquisit...ges/Antoni.jpg

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 :biggrin: )

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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 :biggrin: )

http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/SUN17.htm

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Ms. Antoni's classic piece in this genre, "Gnaw" (1992), entailed performances in which she would chew away a gargantuan block of chocolate to reveal a (pre-prepared) statue of herself or, in corresponding fashion, model herself out of soap. Her aesthetic has always entailed an element of the endurance test. To witness, or know about, the physical suffering or tedium to which the maker has subjected herself became integral to the appreciation of the work.

The problem is that if you just chance upon the humdrum academic statue of a young woman in brown material without knowing (a) that it's chocolate and (b) that a suffering, post-feminist, shaman chocoholic body artist ruined her teeth to sculpt it for you, you may think it's just an academic statue.

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!

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Wake up, America

Wake up and what, party? If it's unavoidable, i.e. you can't prevent it, then why worry about it? Go with the flow.:lol:

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.