With all the hullabaloo about the American consumer’s penchant for overeating, indulgence and general predilection toward obesity, it strikes us that we’ve encountered scant few artists who ever address these issues head on, especially with regard to consumer goods.
That’s why we were all the more excited to encounter a series of provocative images from artist Daniela Edburg’s current show Drop Dead Gorgeous at the Kunsthaus in Miami. Daniela explores the ramifications of food binging and indulgence, albeit with a (markedly) dark sensibility.
As Edburg describes on the website The Morning News,
“There’s only your own dark side. The cake is not really to blame. It’s not really about the products, but the relationship of love and then hate that we have with them. When you look at a beautiful package of Oreos everything is new and shiny and attractive, and there is the promise of the sweetness and the pleasure, and then you go and open it and eat it and all you have are a stomachache, crumbs and garbage.”
via | The Morning News
Haha oh my this is crazy!!
Posted by: cheap canvas art | Monday, October 31, 2011 at 10:01 AM