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An artist can eat anything. However, a man who has even the slightest interest in preserving a high opinion of himself and his knowledge of fine art must visit my restaurant. There are, before you, the 20th century masterpieces, the works of famous artists and artists who were very popular for a while. You order by the artist’s name, without knowing what exactly you will be served. Popularization of high art through stomach…
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Music, it is a wide known fact, enters your being directly, and from now visual art can be directly ingested into the body or through it. It stays with you for hours, depending on your metabolism. Your stool becomes artistically formed. You eat a double artwork, firstly by recommendation of its creator – a 20th century artist, and then again by mine. For you are what you eat!
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The hands are the same, the brain too; art principles and books are the same as well. I open different books on the last century art history and choose what to prepare today. An upgraded cookbook. You have the balance of surfaces, the arrangement of textures and the final look of your meal. Something similar to Viler’s needlepoint patterns (Wiehler gobelins), only with a completely unrestricted approach to the picture. Why not listen to Malievich, who says that the chocolate requires as much coconut powder around it as much white colour he needed around his famous ‘Square’. These are, after all, the only rules that should be obeyed. |
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In a supermarket I choose spices as pigments. Turmeric for Pollock’s yellow, rice and caviar as layers of white and black, creams for Wool. If the label says that tempera isn’t toxic, then it is possible to paint with food. The surfaces are the same too: a white canvas or porcelain, it’s all the same. |
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However, painting with food is, finally, more superior than with pigment. The key lies in the fact that it wipes out the difference between spiritual and physical food. Whether it is more one or the other is impossible to determine. The initial, inspirational examples are here, you continue on your own. Join the artistic food movement – eat Art!
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A Sweetened up History of Art
-----Digital prints by Marko Stojanovic at the ‘Zlatno oko’ Gallery in Novi Sad-----
It is not enough to know and love art, it should be eaten! This is the motto of a young artist Marko Stojanovic (1982) who has exhibited his latest series of digital prints named ‘Art Food’ at the ‘Zlatno oko’ Gallery of the Centre for Visual Culture. Exhibiting edible object is not new to the history of art appearing as far back as pop-art; there have also been quotations of famous works of art, especially since the 80s. Marko Stojanovic has merged these two things and made cakes fashioned after the famous 20th century works of art. On the plates, photographed and printed on large colour panels, like those advertisements in patisseries, we recognize cakes shaped in the style of Jackson Pollock (colour spray), Kasimir Malevich (a black square on the white background – by the way this cake was served at the opening), Daniel Buren (vertical stripes), Jeff Koons (pink tin foil and sugar rose), etc. The names of the famous painters are written on the photographs, together with the titles and years of the works, but the ingredients of the cakes as well, which also contain a touch of irony and allegory. So Malevich’s cake is named ‘Russian Hat’, the work of French artist Buren is made of cheese, Pollock’s work contains nettle and ketchup. Perhaps this is the way to bring abstract and hermetical modern art of the 20th century closer to the masses, and it is perhaps the right way to finally place it where time puts it – into the domain of anecdote, sparkling lie and glamour 20th century was rich in.
Andrej Tisma |
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