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The notion of birth is the stylistic drive to Warren Laine-Naida's poetics. For him it is, first of all, a core of a thousand faces and an ideal receptacle for experiencing the rupture of meanings: "The audience accepts chocolate and is asked to accept a sculpture in chocolate. To accept a new signified using the old signifier. It is an expression of the inexplicable, of the double meaning."

Chocolate is a versatile artistic medium and a cultural icon, but Laine-Naida saw it making flesh under natural demiurges like fire, humidity, mould, time - as well as industrial and fashion trends. It expressed caved-in figures of piety and motherhood, then suburban distress blown with shattered glass, tainted with toxic waste, wax or barbed wire. Now it expresses the glamorous heaven of commodities production.

Through the art of Warren Laine-Naida, the multiple faces and reveries of chocolate have been freed from the garden of our narrow gastronomical delights. He emancipated it from alimentary colonialism into a frenzy of chemical expressions that range from alchemy to sexuality to language


Follow Warren Laine-Naida as he posts instances of chocolate and food art from around the world.
 
  08.2010  deconstructing the chocolate. creating the palimpsest
05.2010  chocolate unwrapped and out of doors
03.2010  cocoa casting. a study in repetition
11.2009  wintersalon09. sylvie proidl vienna
10.2009  chocolate as medium in contemporary art. london chocolate week


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Art in Chocolate | Kunst in Schokolade | Искусство в шоколаде | L’art dans le chocolate | Arte en Chocolate | チョコレートの美学
Most images shown by Konstantin Mihov


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