Vass Sándor – Boticelli’s Venus remix
gravure printing on toast-breadThe artist used an older linoleum sheet from a set of older works, which was related to the passing of beauty. The image of Venus is engraved again, this time on toasts.
Lennie Payne – sculpture of the Rovers Return
2010 feb
Manchester, UK
Soap,bread,pub – they have something in common. The sculpture, was made for the 50th anniversary of Coronation street. It is a replica of the famous Rovers Return pub from the soap.It is made using 135 loaves of bread, 26 crumpets and 24 pancakes. via The Sun.
Adam Sheldon – Crucifixion
Made for Anglican Church of St Peter
Great 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)
Csurka Eszter – bread-sculpture action
2003. október 19 / Budapesti Őszi Fesztivál
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
Mircea Cantor – Stranieri
Exhibited in Roma – Magazzino d’Arte ModernaHard to translate the title of the work “Stranieri“. It means something like a: foreigner, stateless, homeless, fugitive, hobo, beggar, junkie, vagabond…
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
Előd Izsák – Cross in Bread ( “Kenyerbe vetett kereszt” – from hungarian)
video installation – 2006Under 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)
