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A Marble Floor Made of . . . Salami?

YumSugar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:15:09 -0700

I was checking out one of my favorite websites when I came across some gasp-worthy food art. Belgian contemporary artist Wim Delvoye has created a marble floor with salami. Upon first sight of the piece, I was simultaneously wowed by the Delvoye's creativity and . . . hungry.

I already consider food art, but this installation made me consider art as food. Alas, it turns out the patterns are actually made of C prints of the meat (not actual meat) so it couldn't be eaten anyway. What do you think of it? Would you want an inedible marble salami floor?

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PartySugar Behind The Bash: Taste 2008

partysugar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:51:08 -0700

Last Thursday night, I attended one of my favorite parties of the year: Taste 2008. Taste is a fundraiser for Root Division — an organization here in San Francisco — that provides studio space for up-and-coming artists in exchange for their services as art teachers. Food and art expertly clash at this event that invited some of SF's top restaurants to create dishes. To take a look at the food art and the artful food, click the "Start" button.

London Receives a Marmite Kiss

YumSugar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:28:56 -0800

This morning I asked you if you would eat a Marmite sandwich. Imagine my surprise when just a few hours later I discovered that London-based artist, Jeremy Fattorini, has created a giant sculpture made from it! His sculpture, which is a replica of Rodin's The Kiss, is 7-ft. tall and is made from 420 jars of the limited-edition "I Love You" Marmite. It was unveiled yesterday in London's Greenwich Park, just in time for Valentine's Day.

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I Want to Live in a Carl Warner Foodscape

YumSugar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:27:18 -0800

I was checking out some of my favorite websites when I came across these photographs by London based artist Carl Warner. His series called Foodscapes are wonderfully intriguing. Everything in the photos are made completely out of food. The hot air balloons are made with strawberries and garlic, the mountains are made with loaves of bread, trees of broccoli, and houses of cheese. Sounds like my kind of town! I included some of my favorites below, but be sure to check out the entire series. When you go to his website click on Fotographics and then the second briefcase.

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Why Have a Pizza Pie When There's a Pizza Pope?

YumSugar — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:02:01 -0800

British food artist Prudence Emma Staite has a new exhibit up at the Museum of London. This time the experimental artist has created sculptures of the Colosseum, Spanish Steps and Pope Benedict XVI using enough dough to make 500 pizzas. Her exhibit will be on display until November 13.

Each piece is handcrafted and baked by Staite, but personally, I want to see the oven she baked these in!

Be sure to check out the gallery below. My favorite is the one of the museum worker grating parmesan cheese on top of the Colosseum!

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Julia Kissina's a True Meathead

YumSugar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:58:31 -0700

Berlin-based Russian artist Julia Kissina's early photographs bring a new meaning to the phrase Meathead. In her 1997 series, entitled Feen — which means fairies in German — she shows several young girls and ladies wearing raw meat as wigs. That's right, they're meat hair fairies. I've included several of my faves below, but be sure to check out the entire series. Also worth noting are her series of sculpted ground meat and faces surrounded by meat.

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What's In Their Breakfast?

YumSugar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:01:31 -0700

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and apparently LA-based artist Jon Huck got the memo. In his "Breakfast" project, Huck takes headshots of folks and juxtaposes them with snapshots of their breakfast. The result is intriguing — we're all nosy to some degree, right? — and fascinating. It's also quite interesting to see how the food choices, combined with the headshots, can really give you a glimpse at what that person might be like. I've selected a few of my favorites, but you'll find quite a bit more at Huck's website.

Thanks to calamari for the tip!

Denise Tassin's Unique Necco Wafers

YumSugar — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:37:31 -0700

Some folks like to eat Necco wafers, but Baltimore-based artist Denise Tassin enjoys drawing on them. In a new solo show at San Francisco's Zinc Details gallery, Tassin utilizes an assortment of pens — including fine-tipped Sharpies — to create miniature drawings on Necco wafers. Her drawings have currently taken a scientific route and include carefully detailed inkings similar to those found in biology books. Who would have thought that candy and fetal pig respiratory systems go hand in hand? If that's too odd for your tastes, she also has a series of Christmas related items featuring dolls and Santas, as well as a series of individually re-sealed wafers featuring random sketches.

For those of you who haven't had the joy in experiencing their chalky sweetness, Necco wafers are thin sugar wafers made by the New England Confectionary Company — hence the name Necco. They come in eight flavors and colors and make for an interesting art medium. In fact Tassin likes them so much, she has even been known to carry a pen and pack of Necco wafers with her wherever she goes. "t's like having a little studio in your pocket."

If you're in the San Francisco area, you'll be able to see her wafers up close and personal at Zinc Details from September 9 to October 31.

However, if you can't make it to the show, be sure to check out more of her artwork after the jump, just

Yummy Link: Cute Mini People Food Art

YumSugar — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:28:35 -0700

Be sure to check out this gallery of cute and creative food art. The mini folks find themselves in all sorts of situations. I personally love this one of construction workers mining the watermelon, but there are other great ones as well. - Spluch

Coffee + Creativity = Art

YumSugar — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:53:59 -0700

The bf (we're going to call him Jimmy from now on, okay? I really hate that phrase bf) is really into coffee. As in, we got rid of our microwave counter space in order to make room for the coffee pot, espresso machine, grinder and all the other bits of coffee paraphernalia. So when I found this link, I immediately had to forward it to him. For several years, Duluth based artists Andy and Angel Saur have been creating all of their works of art with coffee. Like fine watercolors, the coffee works as washes and shading and each painting is 100% coffee (with the exception of an acrylic coat to preserve the art). It started when the artists were working on a new exhibit for a coffee house. Hoping to create something unique and fun, they decided to work with coffee as a medium. To achieve the different gradients, the artists brew their own thick coffee and dilute as needed. I personally think the results look rich and inviting, like sepia toned paintings. And somehow even their rendition of George Costanza mananges to capture a nostalgic feeling. But don't take my word on it, decide for yourself by checking out their coffee art gallery.

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