Tom Marioni
Via Bryce at Bad at Sports.
The Act of Drinking Beer With Friends is the Highest Form of Art, 2008.
Allan Fisher Drinks a Case of Beer, 1972
From China to Czechoslovakia, 1976
Archived entries for art
Zak Kitnick
Totally love this project by Zak Kitnick, “COMPENDIUM.” The campy (but, admittedly delicious looking) gourmet posters can be seen as a sort of anachronistic Google image search page. Seeing them assembled together removes them yet another degree from their native habitats of suburban kitchens and dining rooms. Once (and I’m just talking about 10 or 15 years ago), a cornucopia of exotic fruits and mushrooms like these would have been hard to imagine together in one spread. I like how these posters – assembled together – subtly suggest a similar absurdity to the endless selection of foodstuffs we can find at any Whole Foods today.
Sharon Core
What do you think of these photographs? Several mimic Wayne Thiebaud paintings – technically really impressive, but I don’t know how interesting that is beyond the wit. It makes you wonder if there was any food styling (painting on blemishes or spraying on moisture, for example) done to her other photographs. Perhaps the real interest to me is that the objects and the light cast on them in each image receive the bulk (or all) of the manipulation – rather than food photography that is doctored in post.
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth was a pioneer of artist books, biodegradable art, food art and arguably the most prolific of all the Fluxus artists. Like his friend Daniel Spoerri, Roth also used food in his work. “Literaturwurst”, a copy of Der Spiegel processed just like meat in a traditional sausage, is an early example.
I was reminded to post something about Roth when I found his rotting cheese suitcase piece, recently unearthed at White Flag Projects in St.Louis this past summer (a fascinating show that pits some classic “biodegradable art” against our current sustainable/green climate). The piece, titled Staple Cheese”, consisted of 37 suitcases filled with cheese, with intention of opening one each day during the duration of the show.
“…within a few days the over-powering smell, maggots and flies combined to make it impossible to enter the room. As a gesture to honor what he called “the exhibition’s true audience,” Roth collected some of the dead flies lying on the floor of the gallery space and put them in a glass jar. The suitcases were later stored in a container designed by Roth for a number of years until Butler’s husband threw the whole exhibition away in the desert.”
SEHR KLEINER GARTENZWERG (VERY LITTLE GARDEN GNOME), 1969. Plastic garden gnome in whole milk chocolate
