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I LOVE CAULK FROSTING
I LOVE BIG TAN CAULK
or
SWISS HAZELNUT SWEETNESS DELIGHT
2010
PAINTING-SCULPTURE; SILICON CAULK
H 120CM X W 120CM
or
H 47-1/4IN X W 47-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 1
BREZELEN / PREZELS, PINE TREES, and SQUIRRELS
DETAIL Nº 2
MUSHROOM
DETAIL Nº 3
PINE TREE
DETAIL Nº 4
SQUIRREL WITH EXPLODING HEAD
AND DROPPINGS
I LOVE BIG BROWN CAULK
or
SWISS MILK CHOCOLATE DELIGHT
2010
PAINTING-SCULPTURE; ACRYLIC CAULK
H 120CM X W 120CM
or
H 47-1/4IN X W 47-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 5
BREZELEN / PREZELS, PINE TREES, and SQUIRRELS
DETAIL Nº 6
MUSHROOM
DETAIL Nº 7
SQUIRREL WITH DROPPINGS
DETAIL Nº 8
SQUIRREL WITH EXPLODING HEAD
I LOVE BIG BLACK CAULK
or
SWISS DARK CHOCOLATE DELIGHT
2010
PAINTING-SCULPTURE; SILICON CAULK
H 120CM X W 120CM
or
H 47-1/4IN X W 47-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 9
BREZELEN / PRETZELS WITH PINE TREES and SQUIRRELS
DETAIL Nº 10
BRETZEL
DETAIL Nº 11
SQUIRREL WITH DROPPINGS
DETAIL Nº 12
SQUIRREL WITH EXPLODING HEAD
AND DROPPINGS
I LOVE AVERAGE WHITE CAULK
or
DINNER PLATES WITH DINNER
2010
TRIPTYCH; PAINTING-SCULPTURE; SILICON CAULK
H 120CM X W 180CM
or
H 47-1/4IN X W 70-13/16IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 13
MUSHROOMS,
COWHEADS INTERCHANGED WITH KRAMPUS,
and DINNER PLATES INTERCHANGED WITH SKULLS
DETAIL Nº 14
MUSHROOM
DETAIL Nº 15
KRAMPUS
DETAIL Nº 16
COWHEADS AND MUSHROOMS
DETAIL Nº 17
SKULLS WITH PLATE SETTINGS, COWHEADS, and MUSHROOMS
I LOVE EXTRA BIG WHITE CAULK
or
SANTA CLAUS, SCHMUTZLI AND SATAN
or
AN ODE TO ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG'S WHITE PAINTING
2010
TRIPTYCH; PAINTING-SCULPTURE; SILICON CAULK
H 180 CM X W 270CM
or
H 70-13/16IN X W 106-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 18
SAINT NICHOLAS' STAFFS INTERCHANGED WITH BUTCHER KNIVES,
APPLES INTERCHANGED WITH COW BELLS,
KRAMPUS HEADS INTERCHANGED GOAT HEADS,
APPLES INTERCHANGED WITH MICKEY MOUSE HEADS,
and CROSSES INTERCHANGED WITH GINGERBREAD MEN
DETAIL Nº 19
GINGERBREAD MAN
DETAIL Nº 20
CAPRICORN
DETAIL Nº 21
GOAT HEAD
I LOVE SMALL WHITE CAULK
or
SHEEP, PIGS AND GIRLIES
2010
TRIPTYCH; PAINTING-SCULPTURE ; SILICON CAULK
H 80CM X W 120CM
or
H 31-1/2IN X W 47-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 22
MUDFLAP GIRLS and SHEEP
DETAIL Nº 23
MUDFLAP GIRL WITH LONG HAIR
DETAIL Nº 24
MUDFLAP GIRL WITH AFRO
DETAIL Nº 25
FEMALE BOAR WITH BREASTS
DETAIL Nº 26
SHEEP
2010
TRIPTYCH; PAINTING-SCULPTURE; ACRYLIC CAULK, LATEX PAINT AND GESSO
H 80CM X W 120CM
or
H 31-1/2IN X W 47-1/4IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
DETAIL Nº 27
CARRIAGES, BOWS, TEAPOTS, WINE GRAPES, CHAMPAGNE WITH FLUTES, POODLES, and UMBRELLAS
DETAIL Nº 28
CARRIAGE
DETAIL Nº 29
TEAP POT
DETAIL Nº 30
CHAMPAGNE WITH FLUTES
DETAIL Nº 31
UMBRELLA
DETAIL Nº 32
POODLE
DIE EXPERIMENTE
2010
SILICON CAULK, ACRYLIC CAULK, LATEX PAINT, METAL PAINT, RHINESTONE AND GLITTER ON WOODEN PANELS
H 17CM X W 17CM
or
H 6-11/16IN X W 6-11/16IN
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND (CH)
(TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT): CHOCOLATE GILDED DREAMS; WINTER QUEEN; PARISIAN GREEN
(MIDDLE ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT): PORCELAIN GILDED DREAMS; WINTER ON SWAN LAKE;
ONCE YOU GO WHITE, YOU KNOW YOUR'E RIGHT. ONCE YOU GO BLACK, YOU NEVER GO BACK
(BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT): WHITE AND MILK CHOCOLATE DELIGHT; ALPINE MINT CHOCOLATE DELIGHT; SNOW QUEEN
I LOVE CAULK FROSTING
2010
VIDEO
2 MIN, 46 SEC; COLOR, SOUND
SOLOTHURN, SCHWEIZ / SUISSE / SVIZZERA / SWITZERLAND
INITIAL CONCEPTUAL WORK BELOW:
OCTOPUSSY
2009
1 PANEL OF A TRIPTYCH; PAINTING-SCULPTURE; ACRYLIC CAULK, GLITTER, FAUX PEARLS AND SATIN
H 60CM X W 60CM
or
H 23-5/8IN X W 23-5/8IN
BERLIN, GERMANY (DE)
OCTOPUSSY, DETAIL Nº 33 - FRONT VIEW
OCTOPUSES WITH PEARL EYES
"I LOVE CAULK FROSTING"
(CAULK pronounced as "COCK")
“As in all petit-bourgeois art, the irrepressible tendency towards extreme realism is countered ... by one of the eternal imperatives of journalism for women’s magazines ... But here, inventiveness, confined to a fairy-land reality, must be applied only to garnishings, for the genteel tendency ... precludes it from touching on the real problems concerning food (the real problem is not to have the idea of sticking cherries into a partridge, it is to have the partridge ... to pay for it).
This ornamental cookery is indeed supported by wholly mythical economics ... an openly dream- like cookery ... a cuisine of advertisement, totally magical, especially when one remembers that this magazine is widely read in small-income groups ... it is very careful not to take for granted that cooking must be economical.”^76
76. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: The Noonday Press, 1975. Print. p. 79.
QUOTES/NOTES:
ORNAMENTAL COOKERY
4.1.1: COATINGS AND ALIBIS TO DISGUISE BRUTALITY
“The ‘substantial’ category which prevails in this type of cooking is that of the smooth coating: there is an obvious endeavor to glaze surfaces, to round them off, to bury the food under the even sediment of sauces, creams, icings and jellies ... Hence a cookery which is based on coatings and alibis, and is for ever trying to extenuate and even disguise the primary nature of foodstuffs, the brutality of meat or the abruptness of sea- food.”^81
4.1.2: GENTEEL COOKERY IN COATINGS
“But, above all, coatings prepare and support one of the major developments of genteel cookery: ornamentation. Glazing, in Elle, serves as a background for unbridled beautification: chiseled mushrooms, punctuation of cherries, motifs of carved lemon, shavings of truffle, silver pastilles, arabesque of glacé fruit: the underlying coat (and this is why I call it a sediment, since the food itself becomes no more than an indeterminate bed-rock) is intended to be the page on which can be read a whole rococo cookery (there is a partiality for a pinkish colour) [sic].”^82
4.1.3: TWO CONTRADICTORY WAYS OF ORNAMENTAL COOKERY
Ornamentation proceeds in two contradictory ways ... on the one hand, feeling from nature thanks to a kind of frenzied baroque (sticking shrimps in a lemon, making a chicken look pink, serving grapefruit hot), and on the other, trying to reconstitute it through an incongruous artifice (strewing meringue mushrooms and holly leaves on a traditional log- shaped Christmas cake, replacing the heads of crayfish around the sophisticated bechamel which hides their bodies).”^83
81. Ibid., p. 78
82. Ibid., p. 78.
83. Ibid., p.79.