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Italian artist, Daniele Barresi, creates fruit and vegetable masterpieces. One of his latest works is a race against time, with a beautiful avocado carving that took about one hour.
The avocado pit, which is often a nuisance, becomes the centerpiece of the intricate fruit art. Barresi works with various types of fruits and vegetables, and sometimes soap. See more below and over on Instagram.
[link, via Bored Panda]
And, you thought Beyoncé’s pregnancy photo-shoot was cheesy. This Beyoncé Statue Made of Cheese was created by sculptor David Bradley and The Robin Collective, for the East Village Cheese and Wine Festival in London.
Although the 45-lb statue is made from a solid block of cheddar, it’s titled the Brie-Oncé… I think I would’ve gone with “Whey-Oncé.” Either way, worship your new Queen Bey, or Whey… whichever.
[link, via Incredible Things]
Although, at first appearance, these appear to be some kind of new and awesome fruit chews, they’re actually an art project to help bring awareness to the industrialization of produce.
The student art project, cm-VEGE by Takuma Kamata, paints a grim picture of where we may be headed with genetic modification. With the use of PVC pipe, acrylic paint, cardboard, wood, and other materials — Kamata reinvents fruits and vegetables in cylindrical form, imagining that they’d be easier for suppliers to ship.
They would certainly be easier to slice. See more of the project below.
[link, via Spoon & Tamago]
Used corrugated cardboard never looked so good. These Ceramic Cardboard Coffee Mugs are made by ceramic artist, Tim Kowalczyk.
The mugs are only part of Kowalczyk’s works, which use oft-discarded and used materials as inspiration. The mugs are totally usable, while each piece is unique — using different textures, stickers and packing tape.
Check them out at Tim’s Etsy shop here.
Art critic, Clive Bell, once theorized that art is subjective, and that the combination of lines and colors creates an aesthetic emotion unique to each person. In the case of MEMORIAL by artist David Shrigley, that emotion is apparently the fear of forgetting something at the supermarket.
MEMORIAL is a seventeen-foot tall stone monument that consists of nothing more than a list of grocery items. All the important stuff is there… peanut butter, ketchup, eggs, bread, etc. The monolith was erected by Public Art Fund, and is currently on display in New York City’s Central Park. Monument to self… buy bread.
[link, via Design You Trust]