True taste for art
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 8. You can have your art and eat it, too, as an opening night crowd at an exhibition in New York demonstrated yesterday. About 300 crowded into the Museum of Contemporary Crafts and first gazed, and then feasted, upon an Bft by 12ft landscape created by Antonio Miralda, of Barcelona, and a French artist, Dorothee Selz.
The landscape, which, according to Miralda, “transforms the everyday reality of food into the material of art and symbol,” was composed of rivers of biscuits and a three-foot mountain of solid chocolate.
It was offered, along with wine, dyed in four arresting hues, on the opening night of the museum’s exhibition: “Objects for preparing food.” “A very tasteful exhibit,” one of the audience said of the Miralda-Selz party. “It had one glaring drawback. After eating and drinking this delicious art, everybody here has green, red or blue mouths.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33095, 9 December 1972, Page 15
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