Monika Koziol – Breadboard
Made at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and DesignBreadboard 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.
BBB Johannes Deimling – BREAD or ALIVE
film (images from his former performances)- 2004
with: with Silja Saarepuu, Villu Plink, Gabriele Avanzinel
Germany, duration: 9:27
“… The Film describes in a surreal way our relation to the simple but important thing: Bread. The artist includes in this film images from his former performances, mixed them with new elements and sounds. The result is a film, that points with humor and strong images on the banal and ordinary nourishment and puts it into the center. … ” (Dr. Eduard Fried)
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
Louise Fresco – Feeding the whole world
2009 Feb.TED – ted.com“Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods”- ted.com
She’s talk was very unilateral, and she missed a lot of details, and that’s why there are a lot of interesting comments.
Here are some good comments:
“Stop buying mass produced bread that somehow have 15-20 ingredients instead of: flour, yeast, water ,salt and whatever niceness you feel like putting in it.” – Karl Andre Bru/source,TED
“Well said! I wonder how much this womam was paid to give this talk? As you say bread has only four ingredients. Ideally they should be organic as other wheat is sprayed I don’t know how many times and retains the dangerous toxins in the valuable bran layers. White bread is a non food in fact a consultant surgeon friend of ours actually called it poison. People who eat white bread are likely to supper from diverticular disease caused by constipation and ultimately they may even get cancer of the bowl which is the chemical manifestation of constipation.” – Neville Gay/source,TED
“Wonderbread(white sliced bread) may be a good solution in an underdeveloped country where people are starving to death. In the Land of Choice (a/k/a USoA), the qualitative difference between the white bread and whole grain virtually punches you in the face…” – AJ/ source nextnature
“…the point is still very valid – that population growth will only be aggravated by having more food available. Though not the most humanitarian perspective. It’s a very likely and unfortunate case.” – meemers542 / source – YouTube
Murányi Matza Teréz – Croissant with Victor Antonescu
Student of Partium ChristianUniversity
Oradea/Partium/Romania
Made for MAFF (Metrion Animation Film Festival)
I am waiting for somebody to invent the hot-dog bed, till then have a sit on a slice of bread.
images source
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…
Vetró Barnabás – We haunt Udvartér
happening, the artist and 3 participants(friends) – 2009, 5’th OctoberThe happening tries to reveal the idea of holiness associated with bread. Because of this reason, the participants given their religious and artistic belief, have changed the outcome compared to what the artist had in mind. It should be known, that the happening evokes a loose common work similar to the very first breadblog work of Vetró Barnabás.
Description of the happening by the artist:
The paintings hanging on the wall of the exhibition space had been flipped and afterwards I had brought in the breads, hidden under my T-shirt. They had already been pealed, I had left them in the center and I went next to the wall. In front of me, my three guests was in front of the three windows. I had thrown at them and they had standed my attacks. There has been someone who had threw back a couple of times, or was simply eating bread. The camera that was positioned in the corner, was recording the events. Afterwards, photos have been taken of the space. Translation: Etelka Tamás
Hans-Peter Feldmann– Bread
“Bread (2008) consists of a slice of bread, the middle of which has been eaten, so that the remaining crust frames an absence and emptiness. The crust is shown on the white museum pedestal as a sculpture. Evoking metaphors of bread as a symbol of life and labour, but also of precariousness and poverty, this small, modest work possesses true monumentality” – text source
Mladen Stilinović – Works with food
“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
