Here at Slashfood we're quite familiar with Christian religious icons appearing in various food items. The Virgin Mary has shown up in everything from eggs to chocolate. Now Jesus Christ is appearing in chocolate, quite literally. And in New York City of all places.
"My Sweet Lord," Cosimo Cavallaro's 200-pound anatomically correct milk chocolate sculpture of a nude Jesus suspended from an invisible cross returns to Manhattan after Catholic groups protested its unveiling during Holy Week last April. Actually in the interest of accuracy the exhibit at Chelsea gallery
The Proposition is called "Chocolate Saints...Sweet Jesus," since it also includes eights saints, among them St. Francis, St. Augustine and the lesser known St. Fermin. If all this strikes you as rather reverent you're not far off. Cavallaro does not intend his works to be disrespectful.
Disrespectful or not Cavallaro's other works involving food strike me as just downright silly. Maybe I'm just uptight. After all, what's so weird about painting a Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, or spraying 5 tons of pepper jack cheese on a Wyoming home.
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