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Breads from Egypt

Egyptian protester with bread helmet

2011

 

About making bread and revolution in Egypt.

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Street-artist ‘Ganzeer’ and other activist-artists

Mural 

Cairo, Egypt - 2011

A mural portraying a bicyclist holding a tray of bread, a familiar food in Cairo known as aish, a word that also means “life.” Facing off the bicyclist was a tank with a soldier in the gun turret, aiming at the bread.

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Pyjamas

Ion Grigorescu – Pyjamas

1978-Bucharest, Romania

series of 4 black and white silver prints

courtesy: the artist and Galerija Gregor Podnar Berlin

 

Box

Erőss István – Box

2009 Aug. – Szárhegy/Transylvania/Romania

 

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

Picasso portrait

Robert Doisneau – Picasso and the loaves

photo  -  1952
location: pottery village  in the hills above Nice

image copyright by Robert Doisneau

Self-portrait

Váncsa Domokos – Self-portrait with two sekler potato bread

mixed technique – 140 x 80 x 50 cm

2009 -  Timisoara, Romania

Bread Head

Nemere Kerezsi - Bread Head

2006 june – Oradea/Partium/Romania