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Breadboard

Monika Koziol – Breadboard

Made at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design

London – 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 wrapped with money

Mladen Stilinović – Works with food

object  -  1978 -2009,

artist born in Belgrade. Lives in Zagreb
exhibition: 11′th International Istambul Biennial

“Since the mid-1970s, Mladen Stilinović has developed artistic strategies using ‘poor’ materials. His works are simple in their execution and engage with such subjects as pain, poverty, death, power and the language of repression, as ongoing and mutually connected conditions. Usually the title is inscribed into the work itself, for example, in a series dealing with food: Geometry for the poor, Cabbage, Borecole, Potato, Bean, Leek, Corn, Cakes, I bite myself, I devour myself, Eat yourself, Bite yourself and Charge, cakes!” – text source

photo credit: Estefán Arnold

Sliced Bread//Notebook

Burak Kaynak - Sliced Bread//Notebook

product design

A funy product made by a turkish creative director. There are 12 slices like the months so a 1 year sketches can be packed and archived as a bread.

The project webpage here.

Crater in a bread

Molnar Krisztina – Crater in a home-made bread

ready-made -  2009

location: Timisoara/Banat/Romania

hardware: Moulinex Home Bread

baker: Csiki Zsolt

The big crater/hole in the center of this home-made bread was created accidentally. It is like the Kinder Surprise toy but there is nothing inside, and Ajna still like it. Maybe, this paranormal phenomena was done because the name of the artist “Molnar” in translation means miller.

(Editorial note) I imagine myself 20 times smaller inside of a crater like this when the bread is baking – that hot smmmmmell concentrated in one place, and I sprinkle a bit of butter on the interior wall. Actually if we bake a large scale bread, this idea can turn into a luxurious sauna for rich people and the byproduct (bread) can be eat by poor people – after the sauna is over, and the bread is cold.

A special “How is Made”

Thomas Thwaites – The toaster project

product design – ongoing project

This guy is trying to build a toaster, from scratch beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99.  Follow his hard work here.

with a magnet under the paper he separates the iron from the rest

Microwaves for melting iron? yes

after 30 minutes at full power, the iron is melted

Me rhino

Vetró Barnabás – Me rhino

photo-action -  2009

made in artist’s home, Saint George/Seklerland/Transylvania/Romania

We are allowed to play with the food. The man is free or at least he should be. In this region people have different belief about playing with food, we learned from our ancestors that some things can’t be approached in a profane way.

This work destroys this belief, like the  ad-hoc bread fight at the end of the nineties – at one of the UdvARTer exhibition’s party where they teared a few home made bread and made a long tiring bread fight. Barnabás’s blog

photo: Roth Enikő

Etna IV

Ütő Gusztáv & Kónya Réka – Etna IV

performance -  1994 jul. 26

5-th AnnART – International Trench Arts Festival in/different MEDIUM3

Saint Ann Lake/Transylvania/Romania

The core-idea to compare  a large homemade bread with Hungary  was given by the artist’s great grandmother. From Bodok’s bread bakery he ordered a bread of 17 kg (37.4 pound). The size of the bread is linked to the tatar invasion. When people from the surrounding villages escaped into Almasi cave the survival solution was to run with a big bread.

In the performance they formally cut down the Transylvania part of the bread than cut in slices, anointed with grease, salted and trough a stencil with the text TRANSYLVANIA scattered some paprika powder on it. These bread slices have been offered to the public in three languages and was devoured with huge appetite.

Angry

source: moamoa.org/ole/angry.jpg

Bread Book

Péter Alpár – Bread Book

book object -  2003

made in Saint George/Transylvania/Romania

materials: bread and paper

The basic concept is our “daily bread” combined with our everyday book, our intellectual values. Our grandparents daily bread and daily meditation and  wisdom melted in one a “books-object” and served on  a home-woven cloth.

Cross in Bread

Előd Izsák – Cross in Bread ( “Kenyerbe vetett kereszt” – from  hungarian)

video installation -  2006

exhibited in Oradea – Transylvania/Romania

bread was made by the artist’s mother in Egerpatak – Seklerland/Transylvania/Romania

Under the bread on a TV-screen a loop video can be seen with a rotating cross graved on the bread-crumb.

The bread’s shape reminds us to the millstone. The rotation of the cross reminds us to an increasingly forgotten ancient tradition – the blessing of the bread (in the bread)