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4 5 ARCENEAUX BADER MOREAU 6 7 BASQUIAT SONGSONG 8 9 DUCHAMP HIERRO 10 11 SUBMISSION JOHN REMBOWSKI DANIELLE ANDERSON poetry photography 12 13 TELFORD WOHNSEIFER 14 17 KARA WALKER Article by JAGODA PAWLAK 18 19 FREEMAN WHITEREAD 20 21 SUBMISSION SONYA BLEIPH digital collage MUNIZ RIVERA SAAR 22 23 ETTER MARR 24 25 CHAVES HOLLAND PENKMAN 26 27 SUGAR PLAYLIST HARRY WILKINSON 28 29 DE HAAN VAN BRUMMLEN 30 31 HORN DE VRIES 32 33 ATTIA 34 35 IMAGE SOURCES 36 37
AUDE MOREAU DARREN BADER Sugar and with Axe 2013 sugar and found axe Sugar Carpet 2013 refined sugar activated charcoal and food colouring With his art installations Bader aims to explore and push the boundaries of what is and is not considered to be art As a part of his series and with which showcased various couplings of disparate objects Sugar and with Axe aims to make viewers question their ideas of what makes this art installation art In this installation Arcenaux explores some of the primary necessities required for civilisations to prosper namely fire and water A book entitled Fire sits atop a layer of cracked red clay its pages coated in a sugar solution and encrusted with sugar crystals that resemble ice 0 04 EDGAR ARCENEAUX Orpheum Returns Fires Creation 2010 wooden shelf clay science book and sugar Montreal artist Aude Moreau used two tonnes of refined sugar to create this installation most recently hosted at the Smack Gallery in Brooklyn New York Moreau created intricate patterns using sugar and charcoal to create this illusionary piece deceiving viewers into believing a real Persian carpet was before them 0 05
AUDE MOREAU DARREN BADER Sugar and with Axe 2013 sugar and found axe Sugar Carpet 2013 refined sugar activated charcoal and food colouring With his art installations Bader aims to explore and push the boundaries of what is and is not considered to be art As a part of his series and with which showcased various couplings of disparate objects Sugar and with Axe aims to make viewers question their ideas of what makes this art installation art In this installation Arcenaux explores some of the primary necessities required for civilisations to prosper namely fire and water A book entitled Fire sits atop a layer of cracked red clay its pages coated in a sugar solution and encrusted with sugar crystals that resemble ice 0 04 EDGAR ARCENEAUX Orpheum Returns Fires Creation 2010 wooden shelf clay science book and sugar Montreal artist Aude Moreau used two tonnes of refined sugar to create this installation most recently hosted at the Smack Gallery in Brooklyn New York Moreau created intricate patterns using sugar and charcoal to create this illusionary piece deceiving viewers into believing a real Persian carpet was before them 0 05
LI SONGSONG JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT Cuban Sugar 2006 oil on aluminium panels Cash Crop 1984 oil and acrylic on canvas In this work Basquiat explores the themes of slavery and colonialism by depicting a verdent sugar cane plant and a black box of sugar an allusion to the African slaves who cultivated this cash crop for their white colonisers Songsong draws on a photograph taken at the United Nationions conference held to discuss the Chinese domestic sugar production crisis that forced unprecedented international trade with Cuba The scene is fractured and each composite piece of the mosaic painting acts as a small image in of itself This disjointed approach suggests the layered difficulty of historical interpretation His formal approach to the subject offers no political opinion and is therefore able to focus solely on the relationship between individual perception and authoritative narratives of historical documentation 0 06 0 07
LI SONGSONG JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT Cuban Sugar 2006 oil on aluminium panels Cash Crop 1984 oil and acrylic on canvas In this work Basquiat explores the themes of slavery and colonialism by depicting a verdent sugar cane plant and a black box of sugar an allusion to the African slaves who cultivated this cash crop for their white colonisers Songsong draws on a photograph taken at the United Nationions conference held to discuss the Chinese domestic sugar production crisis that forced unprecedented international trade with Cuba The scene is fractured and each composite piece of the mosaic painting acts as a small image in of itself This disjointed approach suggests the layered difficulty of historical interpretation His formal approach to the subject offers no political opinion and is therefore able to focus solely on the relationship between individual perception and authoritative narratives of historical documentation 0 06 0 07
LUCIA HIERRO The metre tall sculpture speaks to Hierro s upbringing in New York s immigrant community of Washington Heights It represents the culture of communal care and ties to the theme of Hierro s first solo exhibition titled Vecinos Neighbors Debuting this exhibition in the midst of a global pandemic where cramped living conditions and family have never been more important Hierro states that it is important to understand that certain communities were already supporting each other through hard times 0 08 Can I Borrow a Cup of Sugar 2020 digital print on brushed suede foam packing peanuts MARCEL DUCHAMP Why not Sneeze Rose S lavy 1921 replica 1964 wood metal marble cuttlefish bone thermometer and glass This work consists of a bird cage containing four wooden bars a thermometer cuttlefish bone and fifty two marble pieces both cut to look like lumps of sugar Rose Selavy Duchamp s female alter ego asked the question of the piece s title becomes a commentary on the inability to perform any involuntary action at will The cage and containment of the sugar replicas inside it seem to interrogate the idea of free will and choice Critics have also linked the work to female sexuality with sneeze a euphemism for orgasm
LUCIA HIERRO The metre tall sculpture speaks to Hierro s upbringing in New York s immigrant community of Washington Heights It represents the culture of communal care and ties to the theme of Hierro s first solo exhibition titled Vecinos Neighbors Debuting this exhibition in the midst of a global pandemic where cramped living conditions and family have never been more important Hierro states that it is important to understand that certain communities were already supporting each other through hard times 0 08 Can I Borrow a Cup of Sugar 2020 digital print on brushed suede foam packing peanuts MARCEL DUCHAMP Why not Sneeze Rose S lavy 1921 replica 1964 wood metal marble cuttlefish bone thermometer and glass This work consists of a bird cage containing four wooden bars a thermometer cuttlefish bone and fifty two marble pieces both cut to look like lumps of sugar Rose Selavy Duchamp s female alter ego asked the question of the piece s title becomes a commentary on the inability to perform any involuntary action at will The cage and containment of the sugar replicas inside it seem to interrogate the idea of free will and choice Critics have also linked the work to female sexuality with sneeze a euphemism for orgasm
FEATURED Something Sweet FEATURED JOHN REMBOWSKI Something Sweet Bring me warm summer breezes and Ice cream sticky melting As the tawny sun grows dimmer Cooling shadows start to lengthen Bring me long forgotten faces In the garden lively chirping Rise and fall of murmured laughter Understated overwhelming oral fixation Bring me something full and homely Deep jam ooze and licked lips smattering A gentle hum of bumblebees Between bright petals buzzing Bring me nervous first encounters Candlelit and clear eyes sparkling Dissipating hesitation Draining glasses full and dizzying Bring me air to walk and space to breathe Amidst the growing madness Something sweet and sweeter still As my heart remembers gladness 0 10 DANIELLE ANDERSON instagram smell0vision Bring me shelter in the wandering rain Hot flush of oven opening Old friends around the table Languid limbs and idle chattering desire at your disposal
FEATURED Something Sweet FEATURED JOHN REMBOWSKI Something Sweet Bring me warm summer breezes and Ice cream sticky melting As the tawny sun grows dimmer Cooling shadows start to lengthen Bring me long forgotten faces In the garden lively chirping Rise and fall of murmured laughter Understated overwhelming oral fixation Bring me something full and homely Deep jam ooze and licked lips smattering A gentle hum of bumblebees Between bright petals buzzing Bring me nervous first encounters Candlelit and clear eyes sparkling Dissipating hesitation Draining glasses full and dizzying Bring me air to walk and space to breathe Amidst the growing madness Something sweet and sweeter still As my heart remembers gladness 0 10 DANIELLE ANDERSON instagram smell0vision Bring me shelter in the wandering rain Hot flush of oven opening Old friends around the table Languid limbs and idle chattering desire at your disposal
KENNEDY TALFORD Azimuth 2012 sugar cubes white glue fir plywood glass LED bulb light fixture electric cord hardware Alongside seven other artists Telford was commissioned to create a piece inspired by Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni b 1933 for the Immaterial Pictorial Space exhibition in Vancouver Telford s work plays with Manzoni s pionorship of Conceptual Art In a post war Italian society he eschewed normal artistic materials in order to realize authentic and universal values Telford s continuation of Manzoni s conceptual practices speaks to still relevant critique of a consumerist society The simplicity of the materials alongside structural and architectural elements of the piece bring it forward into a modern metropolitan context 0 12 JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER Braun Sugar 2004 Acrylic paint on stainless steel In his signature graphic style Wohnseifer appropriates cultural references in order to create fake logos poking fun at the world of advertisement and propaganda In this work Wohnseifer wittily juxtaposes the typeface of rock band The Rolling Stones with the mundane name of German electric appliance manufacturer Braun 0 13
KENNEDY TALFORD Azimuth 2012 sugar cubes white glue fir plywood glass LED bulb light fixture electric cord hardware Alongside seven other artists Telford was commissioned to create a piece inspired by Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni b 1933 for the Immaterial Pictorial Space exhibition in Vancouver Telford s work plays with Manzoni s pionorship of Conceptual Art In a post war Italian society he eschewed normal artistic materials in order to realize authentic and universal values Telford s continuation of Manzoni s conceptual practices speaks to still relevant critique of a consumerist society The simplicity of the materials alongside structural and architectural elements of the piece bring it forward into a modern metropolitan context 0 12 JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER Braun Sugar 2004 Acrylic paint on stainless steel In his signature graphic style Wohnseifer appropriates cultural references in order to create fake logos poking fun at the world of advertisement and propaganda In this work Wohnseifer wittily juxtaposes the typeface of rock band The Rolling Stones with the mundane name of German electric appliance manufacturer Braun 0 13
KARA WALKER 0 14 A Subtlety 2014 sugar polystyrene plastic molasses 0 15
KARA WALKER 0 14 A Subtlety 2014 sugar polystyrene plastic molasses 0 15
text by Jagoda Pawlak SUBTLETY subtitled The Marvelous Sugar Baby a Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant Kara Walker s sculptural installation was designed specifically for the Brooklyn based Domino Sugar Factory in 2014 just before planned demolition of this site It consists of a monumental sculpture of a sphinx like figure surrounded by thirteen smaller figurines of children covered in sugar and resin as if to resemble caramel candy The sphinx also known as The Marvelous Sugar Baby is a 75 feet long 35 feet wide structure cast in polystyrene blocks and coated with 30 tons of snow white sugar Remembering the now abandoned purpose of the large deserted complex of buildings Kara Walker brings to the foreground the complexities of sugar production its possibilities as a medium and its place in a history that is closley linked to issues of race and slavery Sweet delectable and more importantly ubiquitous sugar is now a common commodity easily accessible and affordable around the world However the process of production from plantations to the refineries is far from sweet Having named the installation subtleties after medieval sculptural sugar delicacies Kara Walker satirically links her provocative sculptures to the elaborate and expensive objects found on the tables of the wealthy Merging the past and the present Walker unveils how deeply rooted racial stereotypes are in contemporary society 0 16 Sugar creates the outer layer of each figure both in the form of the brown molasses and in the shape of snow white crystals The latter covers the most striking element of the installation the sphinx like figure Half woman half lion the figure bears the exaggerated facial features of a stereotypical Southern mammy her head wrapped in a kerchief and portrayed naked with exaggerated breasts and genitals While this representation generated controversy due to the seeming repetition of a toxic stereotype it also brought attention to the domestic dimension of slavery Kara Walker s exaggerations point out the exploitation of the mammy imagery and the abuse of women who were forced into sexual labour under slavery By covering her provocative sculptures with a thick layer of sugar Walker puts the product and its problematic history at the centre of her installation The usage of sugar as a medium resonated strongly with the space for which the installation was designed Domino Sugar Factory opened in the middle of the nineteenth century was once the most important sugar refinery in the US epitomising the history of exploitation at the core of the sugar industry The rise of the sugar industry became a strong demographic force that brought millions of enslaved Africans to America and to this day influences the movement of people around the globe The monumentality of the sphinx contrasts with the emptiness of this deserted space and visualises how the simple product like sugar is deeply entangled into the web of racial and industrial exploitation Despite the delectable sweetness of this delicacy Kara Walker reveals its sour aftertaste Controversial to some unsetting to others the installation reveals the racist historical prejudices and the theme of sexual abuse still permeating contemporary society 0 17
text by Jagoda Pawlak SUBTLETY subtitled The Marvelous Sugar Baby a Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant Kara Walker s sculptural installation was designed specifically for the Brooklyn based Domino Sugar Factory in 2014 just before planned demolition of this site It consists of a monumental sculpture of a sphinx like figure surrounded by thirteen smaller figurines of children covered in sugar and resin as if to resemble caramel candy The sphinx also known as The Marvelous Sugar Baby is a 75 feet long 35 feet wide structure cast in polystyrene blocks and coated with 30 tons of snow white sugar Remembering the now abandoned purpose of the large deserted complex of buildings Kara Walker brings to the foreground the complexities of sugar production its possibilities as a medium and its place in a history that is closley linked to issues of race and slavery Sweet delectable and more importantly ubiquitous sugar is now a common commodity easily accessible and affordable around the world However the process of production from plantations to the refineries is far from sweet Having named the installation subtleties after medieval sculptural sugar delicacies Kara Walker satirically links her provocative sculptures to the elaborate and expensive objects found on the tables of the wealthy Merging the past and the present Walker unveils how deeply rooted racial stereotypes are in contemporary society 0 16 Sugar creates the outer layer of each figure both in the form of the brown molasses and in the shape of snow white crystals The latter covers the most striking element of the installation the sphinx like figure Half woman half lion the figure bears the exaggerated facial features of a stereotypical Southern mammy her head wrapped in a kerchief and portrayed naked with exaggerated breasts and genitals While this representation generated controversy due to the seeming repetition of a toxic stereotype it also brought attention to the domestic dimension of slavery Kara Walker s exaggerations point out the exploitation of the mammy imagery and the abuse of women who were forced into sexual labour under slavery By covering her provocative sculptures with a thick layer of sugar Walker puts the product and its problematic history at the centre of her installation The usage of sugar as a medium resonated strongly with the space for which the installation was designed Domino Sugar Factory opened in the middle of the nineteenth century was once the most important sugar refinery in the US epitomising the history of exploitation at the core of the sugar industry The rise of the sugar industry became a strong demographic force that brought millions of enslaved Africans to America and to this day influences the movement of people around the globe The monumentality of the sphinx contrasts with the emptiness of this deserted space and visualises how the simple product like sugar is deeply entangled into the web of racial and industrial exploitation Despite the delectable sweetness of this delicacy Kara Walker reveals its sour aftertaste Controversial to some unsetting to others the installation reveals the racist historical prejudices and the theme of sexual abuse still permeating contemporary society 0 17
NICOLA FREEMAN Lovehearts 2014 plaster and resin Freeman s work first exhibited at her final year show at the University of Wolverhampton caught public imagination with its playful proportion and familiar childhood nostalgia Freeman created the pieces to bring the concepts of mass consumerism to attention and to play with the audience s sense of attraction to the large sweets She wants them to question the draw they feel to the clearly inedible objects Tate Modern s Turbine Hall exhibition of 2005 is an exploration of Whiteread s fascination with boxes as imprints of human activity spurned by her discovery of a box containing a collection of her late mother s trinkets She filled a collection of boxes in plaster and turned these casts of interiority into polyethylene forms The large scale of the collection evokes a warehouse or large scale structure such as an iceberg and holds innumerable critical interpretations but above all was a fantastical spectacle and experience of space 0 18 RACHEL WHITEREAD Embankment 2005 14 000 translucent white polyethylene boxes
NICOLA FREEMAN Lovehearts 2014 plaster and resin Freeman s work first exhibited at her final year show at the University of Wolverhampton caught public imagination with its playful proportion and familiar childhood nostalgia Freeman created the pieces to bring the concepts of mass consumerism to attention and to play with the audience s sense of attraction to the large sweets She wants them to question the draw they feel to the clearly inedible objects Tate Modern s Turbine Hall exhibition of 2005 is an exploration of Whiteread s fascination with boxes as imprints of human activity spurned by her discovery of a box containing a collection of her late mother s trinkets She filled a collection of boxes in plaster and turned these casts of interiority into polyethylene forms The large scale of the collection evokes a warehouse or large scale structure such as an iceberg and holds innumerable critical interpretations but above all was a fantastical spectacle and experience of space 0 18 RACHEL WHITEREAD Embankment 2005 14 000 translucent white polyethylene boxes
FEATURED BLEIPH Digital Collages instagram bleiph It s definitely OK 2020 SONYA Glucose 2020 0 20 Maturation 2020
FEATURED BLEIPH Digital Collages instagram bleiph It s definitely OK 2020 SONYA Glucose 2020 0 20 Maturation 2020
VIK MUNIZ The Sugar Children 1996 gelatin silver print Sugar Cane Machete 2018 wood copper tin bronze tar and vintage found tools This sculpture stands amongst five other young female forms armed with real found tools of slave labour and camouflaged with cotton in their hair a symbol of revolution and self determination ALISON SAAR Indigo Blue Holly Sugar 2016 Intaglio print Alison Saar uses her works to address issues of racism illuminating the past in order to comment on current political unrest Saar incorporated an antique Holly Sugar sack as the backdrop to this print as an allusion to her country s tragic racist past of slavery on sugar plantations DIEGO RIVIERA With the paper wipes clean between every portrait the transience of the images preserved by photography gives symbolic value to the generations of cane workers consumed by the exploitative sugar industry 0 22 ALISON SAAR Inspired by photos taken of local Caribbean children while on holiday in St Kitts Muniz created a series of portraits by arranging sugar on black paper The contrast between medium and subject points to the hard labour and child exploitation of the local sugar trade alongside the historic brutalities of the sugar trade in the Caribbean Sugar Cane 1931 portable fresco In this scene of a sugar plantation in Mexico Rivera explores themes of inequality race and class by immortalising the lives ofbrutally exploited Mexican sugar plantation workers The white Spanish colonists in the background sit and lounge lazily in dull browns and greys contrasting heavily with the indigenous figures dressed in heavenly white working tirelessly in the foreground midground and far left corner 0 23
VIK MUNIZ The Sugar Children 1996 gelatin silver print Sugar Cane Machete 2018 wood copper tin bronze tar and vintage found tools This sculpture stands amongst five other young female forms armed with real found tools of slave labour and camouflaged with cotton in their hair a symbol of revolution and self determination ALISON SAAR Indigo Blue Holly Sugar 2016 Intaglio print Alison Saar uses her works to address issues of racism illuminating the past in order to comment on current political unrest Saar incorporated an antique Holly Sugar sack as the backdrop to this print as an allusion to her country s tragic racist past of slavery on sugar plantations DIEGO RIVIERA With the paper wipes clean between every portrait the transience of the images preserved by photography gives symbolic value to the generations of cane workers consumed by the exploitative sugar industry 0 22 ALISON SAAR Inspired by photos taken of local Caribbean children while on holiday in St Kitts Muniz created a series of portraits by arranging sugar on black paper The contrast between medium and subject points to the hard labour and child exploitation of the local sugar trade alongside the historic brutalities of the sugar trade in the Caribbean Sugar Cane 1931 portable fresco In this scene of a sugar plantation in Mexico Rivera explores themes of inequality race and class by immortalising the lives ofbrutally exploited Mexican sugar plantation workers The white Spanish colonists in the background sit and lounge lazily in dull browns and greys contrasting heavily with the indigenous figures dressed in heavenly white working tirelessly in the foreground midground and far left corner 0 23
JOSEPH MARR Laura series 2011 sugar preserved with polyurethane JONAS ETTER Burnt Sugar Painting 2009 burnt liquid sugar maple and swimming pool coating Etter s dramatic wall hangings leaked out thick viscous burnt sugar onto the gallery floor creating an inanimate performance which continuously changed its form over the time it took to melt 0 24 This series of sculptures depict the same repeated nude female form of Laura in hyper realistic anatomical detail Laura is shown in erotic positions featuring ropes and stands in powerful dominant stances Marr said of the series She holds a rope around her showing that she is in control of her desire She knows her power and how she can entrap a person and control their desires It s all on her terms 0 25
JOSEPH MARR Laura series 2011 sugar preserved with polyurethane JONAS ETTER Burnt Sugar Painting 2009 burnt liquid sugar maple and swimming pool coating Etter s dramatic wall hangings leaked out thick viscous burnt sugar onto the gallery floor creating an inanimate performance which continuously changed its form over the time it took to melt 0 24 This series of sculptures depict the same repeated nude female form of Laura in hyper realistic anatomical detail Laura is shown in erotic positions featuring ropes and stands in powerful dominant stances Marr said of the series She holds a rope around her showing that she is in control of her desire She knows her power and how she can entrap a person and control their desires It s all on her terms 0 25
REBECCA HOLLAND Holland s structures are created by moulding strong beet sugar with water with a coating of polyurethane used to protect the inevitable decay of the sugar structure The soft pastel translucency of the cubes evokes feminine fashion pleasing on the eye She has stated that the colours are mocking I am looking for something ridiculous Sugar Sweet Rock Solid 2007 cast sugar and polyurethane Brazillian artist Chaves draws MARCOS CHAVES on the humour of contradiction Sugar Baby and absurdity to point out the 1996 blindness with which ordinary photograph digital print on cotton paper items are viewed under social convention The word play of the work s title draws on the convention of sugar babies the beneficiaries of sugar daddies The two images in the photo display a literally depicted cartoonish baby made of sugar placed comparatively to a piece of chewed up gum The photograph creates a playful social commentary or simply a comic deconstruction of the absurdities of language 0 26 JOEL PENKMAN Flying Saucers 2011 Egg tempera on gesso board This work depicts a scattering of sherbet filled flying saucer sweets in Penkman s signature hyper realistic style 0 27
REBECCA HOLLAND Holland s structures are created by moulding strong beet sugar with water with a coating of polyurethane used to protect the inevitable decay of the sugar structure The soft pastel translucency of the cubes evokes feminine fashion pleasing on the eye She has stated that the colours are mocking I am looking for something ridiculous Sugar Sweet Rock Solid 2007 cast sugar and polyurethane Brazillian artist Chaves draws MARCOS CHAVES on the humour of contradiction Sugar Baby and absurdity to point out the 1996 blindness with which ordinary photograph digital print on cotton paper items are viewed under social convention The word play of the work s title draws on the convention of sugar babies the beneficiaries of sugar daddies The two images in the photo display a literally depicted cartoonish baby made of sugar placed comparatively to a piece of chewed up gum The photograph creates a playful social commentary or simply a comic deconstruction of the absurdities of language 0 26 JOEL PENKMAN Flying Saucers 2011 Egg tempera on gesso board This work depicts a scattering of sherbet filled flying saucer sweets in Penkman s signature hyper realistic style 0 27
SUGAR PLAYLIST BY HARRY WILKINSON FEATURED 0 29
SUGAR PLAYLIST BY HARRY WILKINSON FEATURED 0 29
This silent film essay documents artists Van Brummenlen and de Hann s investigation into Europe s subsidized sugar trade and archives their experience of producing and transporting sugar blocks under the guise of art into Europe They found that the majority of Europe s cheap sugar was exported to Nigeria and aimed to reverse the flow of the subsidized commodity by purchasing Europe s sugar in Nigeria and shipping it back home LONNIE VAN BRUMMELEN SIEBREN DE HAAN Monuments of Sugar how to use artistic means to elude trade barriers 2007 16mm film colour 67 min frequently displayed within an installation with a floor sculpture of sugar modules The film explores the absurdities of global trade and competition whilst also capturing landscapes of agriculture industry market and transit involved in the laborious process of production Tied up in their doctrine of drifting studio practice the work attempts to use art to break the boundaries of modern bureaucracy and ties together the absurdity of conceptual art and globalised captalism both equally absurd abstracts concepts often both intrinsically tied to material objects Press here for exerpts from the documentary and an introduction from the artists worldofmatter net 0 30 0 31
This silent film essay documents artists Van Brummenlen and de Hann s investigation into Europe s subsidized sugar trade and archives their experience of producing and transporting sugar blocks under the guise of art into Europe They found that the majority of Europe s cheap sugar was exported to Nigeria and aimed to reverse the flow of the subsidized commodity by purchasing Europe s sugar in Nigeria and shipping it back home LONNIE VAN BRUMMELEN SIEBREN DE HAAN Monuments of Sugar how to use artistic means to elude trade barriers 2007 16mm film colour 67 min frequently displayed within an installation with a floor sculpture of sugar modules The film explores the absurdities of global trade and competition whilst also capturing landscapes of agriculture industry market and transit involved in the laborious process of production Tied up in their doctrine of drifting studio practice the work attempts to use art to break the boundaries of modern bureaucracy and ties together the absurdity of conceptual art and globalised captalism both equally absurd abstracts concepts often both intrinsically tied to material objects Press here for exerpts from the documentary and an introduction from the artists worldofmatter net 0 30 0 31
JACQUI KELLY SodaStream Sculpture 2015 Sugar The body form created out of sugar cubes belies the fragility of the human body with scattered loose sugar at the base of the sculpture pointing to age and decay The use of such a mundane and everyday material he claims is a way of connecting with people Not a lot of people may have had an experience with traditional art materials but these familiar materials have meaning for them He encourages people to look at these ordinary objects with fresh eyes TOM FRIEDMAN Sparkling water company SodaStream commissioned Jacqui Kelly to create these sugar statues in order to shine light on the excessive amounts of sugar consumed by the general public via fizzy drinks Each statue was made with the exact amount of sugar consumed every minute by each respective age group children teenagers and adults Untitled Self Portrait 1999 sugar cubes and sugar JAMISON MARK REVELS BRENDAN Body World 2018 carved sugar cubes 0 32 For this 2018 installation and educational project Jamison and Revels carved seven scientifically themed sculptures entirely from sugar cubes intended to educate viewers on the effects of sugar on the human body 0 33
JACQUI KELLY SodaStream Sculpture 2015 Sugar The body form created out of sugar cubes belies the fragility of the human body with scattered loose sugar at the base of the sculpture pointing to age and decay The use of such a mundane and everyday material he claims is a way of connecting with people Not a lot of people may have had an experience with traditional art materials but these familiar materials have meaning for them He encourages people to look at these ordinary objects with fresh eyes TOM FRIEDMAN Sparkling water company SodaStream commissioned Jacqui Kelly to create these sugar statues in order to shine light on the excessive amounts of sugar consumed by the general public via fizzy drinks Each statue was made with the exact amount of sugar consumed every minute by each respective age group children teenagers and adults Untitled Self Portrait 1999 sugar cubes and sugar JAMISON MARK REVELS BRENDAN Body World 2018 carved sugar cubes 0 32 For this 2018 installation and educational project Jamison and Revels carved seven scientifically themed sculptures entirely from sugar cubes intended to educate viewers on the effects of sugar on the human body 0 33
TIMOTHY HORN Mother Load 2008 crystallised rock sugar plywood and steel 0 34 Dutch artist Bouke de Vries created this 8 metre long centrepiece inspired by extravagant sugar and porcelain sculptures of 17th and 18th century aristocracy Consisting of seven main sculptures made from plastic toys sugar and porcelain War and Pieces depicts classical figures battling each other with found objects such as table knives The work is described by de Vries as a battle between the Ancient Regime of sugar and porcelain and the plastic modern interlopers Depictions of Christian imagery such as the crucified Christ and ancient Chinese bodhisattva Guan Yin can be found amidst the focal point of the table the two foot tall mushroom cloud explosion This Australian artist s oeuvre is based around recasting traditional historical items and in this case he has remodelled the Neapolitan sedan chair used by Alma de Bretteville Spreckeles the widow of Californian sugar magnate Adolph Spreckeles Horn morphed the sedan into a stately carriage and thus examines the relationship between personal items and the body He states that his precise interest is in the intersection between beauty and grotesque perfection versus vulgarity BOUKE DE VRIES War and Pieces 2012 2018 sugar porcelain plastic toys dining utensils and found objects 0 35
TIMOTHY HORN Mother Load 2008 crystallised rock sugar plywood and steel 0 34 Dutch artist Bouke de Vries created this 8 metre long centrepiece inspired by extravagant sugar and porcelain sculptures of 17th and 18th century aristocracy Consisting of seven main sculptures made from plastic toys sugar and porcelain War and Pieces depicts classical figures battling each other with found objects such as table knives The work is described by de Vries as a battle between the Ancient Regime of sugar and porcelain and the plastic modern interlopers Depictions of Christian imagery such as the crucified Christ and ancient Chinese bodhisattva Guan Yin can be found amidst the focal point of the table the two foot tall mushroom cloud explosion This Australian artist s oeuvre is based around recasting traditional historical items and in this case he has remodelled the Neapolitan sedan chair used by Alma de Bretteville Spreckeles the widow of Californian sugar magnate Adolph Spreckeles Horn morphed the sedan into a stately carriage and thus examines the relationship between personal items and the body He states that his precise interest is in the intersection between beauty and grotesque perfection versus vulgarity BOUKE DE VRIES War and Pieces 2012 2018 sugar porcelain plastic toys dining utensils and found objects 0 35
KADER ATTIA Oil and Sugar 2 2007 single channel video projection colour sound 4 30 French Algerian artist Kader Attia combines two initially contradictory materials in a short video a single shot documents the disintegration of a cube of sugar by crude oil The two materials are in conflict with each other one black one white one liquid one solid one ordered and neat and the other chaotic However caught in the repetitive loop of the video the viewer begins to realize the material similarities between the mediums The production of both is linked to mass human exploitation and violence both are as destructive as the other 0 36 0 37
KADER ATTIA Oil and Sugar 2 2007 single channel video projection colour sound 4 30 French Algerian artist Kader Attia combines two initially contradictory materials in a short video a single shot documents the disintegration of a cube of sugar by crude oil The two materials are in conflict with each other one black one white one liquid one solid one ordered and neat and the other chaotic However caught in the repetitive loop of the video the viewer begins to realize the material similarities between the mediums The production of both is linked to mass human exploitation and violence both are as destructive as the other 0 36 0 37
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Edgar Arceneaux Kader Attia Darren Bader https vielmetter com artists edgar arceneaux Jean Michel Basquiat https www phillips com detail jeanmichel basquiat UK010110 18 Marcos Chaves https wsimag com nararoesler artworks 90451 http kaderattia de oil and sugar 2007 https contemporaryartdaily com 2013 09 darren bader at blum poe Lonnie van Brummlen https www frieze com article lonnie van brummelen siebren de haan Sibren de Haan https www sfchronicle com art article The Way Things Go Food inspires art that 6075752 php photo 7492445 Marcel Duchamp https www tate org uk art artworks duchamp why not sneeze rose selavy t07508 Jonas Etter https weirdlooops wordpress com 2013 07 17 jonas etter burnt sugar art Nicola Freemans Tom Friedman https makezine com 2011 06 16 nicola_freemans_giant_sweeties https www vistamarestudio com artists tom friedman lang en Lucia Hierro https www artsy net artwork lucia hierro can i borrow a cup of sugar Rebecca Holland https glasstire com 2007 06 11 rebecca holland sugar sweet rock solid Timothy Horn https www nytimes com 2008 06 01 magazine 01Style matter t html Brendan Jamison Mark Revels http www brendanjamison com sugarcube html Jacqui Kelly Joseph Marr https www campaignlive co uk article pictures sodastream unveils sugar statues combat sugary drinks 1375564 Aude Moreau https collabcubed com 2013 01 28 aude moreau sugar carpet http www thephotophore com joseph marr Vik Muniz https www christies com lotfinder Lot vik muniz b 1961 the sugar children 5946457 details aspx Joel Penkman https www joelpenkman com Sweets 1 Diego Rivera https www moma org interactives exhibitions 2011 rivera mobile mural_details sugar_cane html 0 38 Alison Saar https museum wsu edu events exhibit 2017 fall contemporary women printmakers alison saar indigo blue holly sugar 2016 https visualartsource com index php page editorial aID 4709 Li Songsong https www saatchigallery com artists artpages li_songsong_cuban_sugar htm Kennedy Talford https kennedytelford com azimuth Bouke de Vries https www harleygallery co uk exhibition war pieces Johannes Wohseifer Rachel Whiteread https www saatchigallery com artists artpages wohseifer_braun_sugar htm https www tate org uk whats on tate modern exhibitionseries unilever series unilever series rachel whiteread embankment 0 0 39
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