Art Food

History of Art, sweetened up

Andrej Tišma

It is not enough to know and love art, art should be eaten as well! This is the motto of a young artist, Marko Stojanović (1982), who has exhibited his latest series of digital prints named ‘Art Food’ at the ‘Zlatno oko’ Gallery of the Centre for Visual Culture. Exhibiting edible object is not a new thing for the history of art, and it appears as far back as pop-art; when quotations of famous works of art have also been made, especially since the '80s. Marko Stojanović has merged these two things and made cakes fashioned after the famous 20th century works of art. On the plates, photographed and printed on large colour panels, like those advertisements in patisseries, we recognize cakes shaped in the style of Jackson Pollock (colour spray), Kasimir Malevich (a black square on the white background – by the way this cake was served at the opening), Daniel Buren (vertical stripes), Jeff Koons (pink tin foil and sugar rose), etc. The names of the famous painters are written on the photographs, together with the titles and years of the works, but the ingredients of the cakes as well, which also contain a touch of irony and allegory. So Malevich’s cake is named ‘Russian Hat’, the work of French artist Buren is made of cheese, Pollock’s work contains nettle and ketchup. Perhaps this is the way to bring abstract and hermetical modern art of the 20th century closer to the masses, and it is perhaps the right way to finally place it there where the time itself puts it – into the domain of anecdote, sparkling lie and glamour 20th century was rich in.

"In a supermarket, I choose spices as pigments. Turmeric for Pollock’s yellow, rice and caviar as layers of white and black, creams for Wool. If the label says that tempera isn't toxic, then it is possible to paint with food as well. The surfaces are the same too: be it a white canvas or porcelain, it’s all the same."

Zaslađena istorija umetnosti

Andrej Tišma

Umetnost nije dovoljno poznavati i voleti, treba je i jesti! Ovo je geslo mladog umetnika Marka Stojanovića (1982) koji je u Galeriji Centra za vizuelnu kulturu "Zlatno oko" u NovomSadu izložio najnoviju seriju digitalnih printova pod naslovom "Umetnička hrana" (Art Food).
U istoriji umetnosti izlaganje jestivih predmeta nije novost i javlja se još u pop-artu, takođe se sreću citati poznatih dela umetnosti, naročito od 80-ih godina prošlog veka. Marko Stojanović je spojio ove dve stvari i napravio kolače u stilu poznatih dela umetnosti 20. veka. Na tanjirima snimljenim i štampanim na velike kolor panoe, nalik reklamama u poslastičarnici, prepoznajemo kolače oblikovane u stilu DŽeksona Poloka (prskanje boje), Kazimira Maljeviča (crni kvadrat na beloj podlozi - inače ovaj kolač je služen na otvaranju izložbe), Danijela Burena (vertikalne štrafte), Džefa Kunsa (roze staniol i šećerna ruža) itd. Na slikama su ispisana imena slavnih slikara, nazivi dela i godine, ali i sastav kolača, koji takođe sadrži primese ironije i alegorije. Tako Maljevičev kolač nosi naziv "Ruska kapa", rad francuskog autora Burena je od sira, u Polokovom delu ima koprive i kečapa. Možda je ovo pravi način da se narodnim masama približi apstraktna i hermetična moderna umetnost 20. veka, a možda je i pravi način da se ona konačno postavi na mesto koje joj vreme nameće - u sferu anegdote, šarene laže i glamura kojima je 20. vek obilovao.

"U supermarketu začine biram kao pigmente. Kurkuma kao Polokova žuta, pirinač i kavijar kao slojevite bela i crna, za Vula kremovi. Ako na temperi piše da nije otrovna, onda se i hranom može slikati. Iste su i površine: belo platno ili porcelan, svejedno."