I am loving Julia's ring pop art installation, but have one question: how do you keep the bugs away? It would be a lot of fun to create a similar installation in a creative space or kids' room. The kids could help spell out the message or shape with the promise that they wouldn't lick the ring pops. Do you think they could resist the temptation if it were a permanent fixture in their room?
When the gallery lights melt the candy, its juice drips down the walls. The piece strikes many emotions and childhood memories as I loved the treat of a sweet ring pop. Now that we are drooling over the ring pop art, we are on the hunt for more artistic candy installations. Julia Chiang created another piece of work incorporating food, this time it was glazed porcelain apples in lieu of real apples.
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hahahaha- putting this as art in a kids room.... no way you actually have kids to even type that concept. They'd be bouncing off the walls just looking at it!
That being said- I liove the colors and cute concept. In a gallery.
If the snozberries taste like snozberries, I'm all for it.
A friend of mine makes gummi bear art. Check it out at this link.
http://redhookart.com/Red_Hook_Art.html
He also makes gummi jewelry.
No. But you're cute for thinking that.
LOL, I couldn't resist the temptation, much less expect my kids to do it. My husband would come in one night at 3AM, and I'd have my nose pressed up against the wall. And then I'd try to blame the sleeping kids for somehow tricking me into it.
Of course this is a terrible idea. They would be disgusting. They would be covered in bugs. They would not just melt, they'd also dissolve in heat and humidity. And also, I would find out where you live and come to your house and lick all the cherry ring pops.
Wow, these are WAYYY after my time!
Colorful, weird, nicely implemented, but I'm really really glad that's not MY gallery, with the eventual cleanup. ("The ants go marching one by one"...) What's with the current movement for practically nothing but CONCEPTUAL art, anyhow? Nobody paints any more??
Drakekelbel - thanks for sharing your friend's gummi bear art.
It's a little derivative. On the one had, Ed Ruscha was obviously a source of inspiration, and on the other we have Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
His famous installation piece consists of a pile of wrapped candies placed in the corner of the gallery with the expectation that the crowd will slowly take it over the course of the day until the pile wears down. Called "Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)," it represents the artists' boyfriend as he wasted away and died from AIDS. Nothing about a piece that draws from that piece says kids' room to me
Hmmm, those drips seem almost TOO perfectly straight. And some of the rings don't have any drips. Methinks maybe there's something else going on other than dripping?
Uh, this is going to attract a LOT of bugs!
How about coating the rings with clear lacquer? I think it's fun and interesting art work for a child's room!
I'm glad you mentioned the Felix Gonzalez-Torres akay, so that I was not the only one with that upsetting reference amidst -cheery kids room drippings!-.
"The ants go marching one-by-one, hurrah, hurrah..."
My first thought was also 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' related. "Lickable wallpaper for nursery walls. Lick an orange, it tastes like an orange. Lick a pineapple, it tastes like a pineapple."
Flavor Paper wallpaper company has scratch and sniff wallpaper in cherry, banana and tutti frutti.
http://www.flavorleague.com/company/the-fruit-cocktail-collection
Absolutely love this art. BTW, gucci outlet, please bugger off. Apartment Therapy, can't you delete this idiot's posts please?
OMGOSH!! I'm in love!!
I want it, but sadly i would be like mckate and you would find me with my face to the wall... probably stuck at the forehead or something.
Besides, unlike McKate, i don't have kids to blame.
if I can't resist the temptation to lick the art, kids most certainly can't. I can't even walk by gingerbread houses (you can't eat those, I'be tried. They use glue!) without salivating so ring pops would be way too tempting for me.