This bacon teacup is from Meat After Meat Joy, an exhibition of artists who work in meat (yes, there are more than one!), now running at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York. If you think bacon art is a contemporary phenomenon, you'll find it interesting to learn that artists have been using meat in the work since at least as far back as 1964, when Carolee Schneemann staged a "happening" involving chicken, sausage, raw fish and several semi-nude performers at the Festival of Free Expression in Paris. Other works at the Meat After Meat Joy exhibit include an animatronic meat shoe that twitches with electricity and a lard and meat flag that is already swarming with maggots. Mmmmm.
Thanks for the link, Eat Me Daily.
3-14-2009 @9:57PM Barry said... Come on. This is dumb. This "art" is devaluing the real price of meat. The price of meat obviously includes the life of the animal itself, the cost of raising it, the resources involved to process it, etc.
I eat meat but this just callous. If you want to make art out of food, cook well.
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3-15-2009 @3:24AM hddoctor said... my god,,,
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3-15-2009 @8:55AM jason said... The one pictured seems to be a version/homage/rip off (I will let you decide) of Meret Oppenheim's "Object: Fur Cup" done in 1936.
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=80997
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3-15-2009 @10:50AM tobyleah said... This exhibition is long, long over. Was very disappointed to have missed it.
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3-18-2009 @8:44PM Gladys said... Praise worthy the crafty hands and brain to think of using such material. But my first thought was: What a mockery to those who daily go hungy, while others have time to play with food and call it art!It leaves me with stale taste!But this is a product of a free world, first world others would say, where we hardly give a second thought to avoid offending others...and we thrive as we transgress and challenge common sence.
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3-24-2009 @9:22PM Matt said... Christ, there are starving people in the world! Make teacups out of them instead.
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4-02-2009 @10:07AM Hok said... At the pictute it looks quite ok (while downloading files from http://rapidqueen.com rapidshare SE I saw even worse ones), but I cannot imagine it among other things at the exhibition. How long did the exhibition last?
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5-08-2009 @5:45PM Surya said... Wow, this has got to be high on the list of dumb things that I have seen in my life. Beyond the fact that it lacks any merit in its craftsmanship and is sad in desperate attempt to be original, it is just plain bad art that would flunk 1st year art studio. Sigh, I'll never get the 30 seconds of my life that I wasted looking at this inane nonsense. I know a decent job at the Walmart food counter that this person could probably hold.
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