4 whales in a soft sponge
There are many reasons why the culinary arts were such an attractive genre for the avant-garde. Cooking is a discipline that is primary sensual: irrationality is allowed, creativity is praised. Culinary arts are controversial: what is considered edible and especially tasty is something that is constantly changing and being brought into question. Cooking and eating are performative: they are and have always been about performing wealth, class, culture, lifestyle. Food is traditional and highly ritualized: a perfect target for an artist wanting to break with conventions of taste and conduct.
4 whales in a soft sponge freely re-interprets the absurdist cookbooks of the avant-garde, setting them in dialogue with contemporary artistic positions. Six artists and artist duos from Vienna appropriate culinary methods into their respective practices ranging from sculpture to performance and digital arts.
(Text: Nika Kupyrova)
Gruppenausstellung:
Honey & Bunny, Isa Schieche, Mara Novak, Peter Varnai & Margareta Klose,
Steffi Parlow, Titania Seidl
Kuratorin: Nika Kupyrova
Medium Gallery, Bratislava
19.6. – 4.8. 2024
Thuringian silver wedding buffet
Photograph, framed
7,5 x 10,5cm
1988
Attractive remaining stock
Installation/ Buffet
126 x 90cm
Edible objects, various objects
2024
Photos: isonative
