Chocolates

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Klaus Pichler Rotting Chocolate Cookies, 2012
dough, sugar, chocolate, mould

 

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Janine Antoni Gnaw, 1992
600 lb chocolate cube gnawed by the artist

 

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Mathijs Hunfeld BABY FACE IT, 2024
Chocolate, acrylic, 9x11x7 cm

 

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Irène Kanga Forced Love, 2020
Six chocolate sculptures

 

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Henry Taylor Chocolate Lover, 2006
Oil and graphite on canvas

 

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Nel-14512 Amuse bouche, 2014
spoons, chocolate

 

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Vik Muniz Anthropometries, After Yves Klein, 1997
chocolate

 

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Donald Baechler Chocolate Cones, 2007
33 color silkscreen

 

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Doug Aitken Foundation, 2007
chocolate fountain

 

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Paul McCarthy Chocolate Silicone Blockhead, 1999-2000
Cast silicone & chocolate

 

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Andy Warhol Candy Box, 1980
Synthetic polymer paint, silkscreen ink and diamond dust on canvas

 

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Peter Anton Milk Bar, 2008
Resin and wood 53.5 x 19 x 8 cm

 

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Camille Teo Anastacia, 2020
treated photograph

 

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Salvador Dalí Retrospective Bust of a Woman, 1933
painted porcelain, bread, corn, chocolate, feathers, paint on paper, beads, ink stand, sand, and two pens

 

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Adam McEwen Chocolate Bar, 2012
Graphite sculpture

 

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Dieter Roth Schokoladenmeer, 1970
‘For this particular work, Roth shredded the manuscript of an unpublished novel and used the strips of paper and squares of chocolate to make a composition.’

 

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Erwin Wurm Untitled, 2010
chocolate

 

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Kelley Walker Black Star Press, 2007
Digital print with silkscreened white, milk, and dark chocolate on canvas mounted to wood panel

 

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Renzo Martens A New Settlement, 2015
‘These busts were originally made by Congolese plantation workers, and then rendered into 3D models using the highest quality Belgian chocolate to make the sculptures on display, each Congolese artists’ name labelled on the wall amongst them Djonga Bismar and Mbuku Kipala.

‘Small chocolate heads in pristine boxes are on sale “special exhibition price £39.95” all proceeds go straight back to the plantation workers. In this work, Martens takes on the role of narcissistic, white journalist in the Congo. It is a dark and provocative work in which he encourages the plantation workers to sell the only resource they have – poverty itself.’

 

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Richard Combes SLICE OF BREAD WITH NUTELLA, 2017
Canvas, Oil

 

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Minerva Cuevas Feast and Famine, 2015
‘In this exhibition, Cuevas uses cacao as a material to reveal the colonial processes inherent in global trade and commerce. Chocolate is used to transform and distort images of quotidian consumption in order to question the notions of value, exchange, and property that rule the capitalist economy.’

 

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David Shrigley Chocolate Is Not The Problem, 2020
paint & felt tip on paper

 

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Anya Gallacio Stroke, 2024
‘There is an empty shop on the high street of Paisley, Scotland, that has walls painted entirely in melted dark chocolate. It’s not far from the hospital in which the painter of the chocolate, Anya Gallaccio, was born in 1963. Famous for her sculptural explorations of decay, Gallaccio has created Stroke, a multi-sensory experience of chocolate, using the vacant shop as a comment on the post-industrial hollowing out of a town with a proud manufacturing past. It stands as an example of how art can positively transform disused spaces into places of immersive exploration.’

 

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Wayne Thiebaud Dark Cake, 1983
Woodcut in colors

 

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Rose Wylie Various, 2015
‘Whilst she is far from being an ‘outsider artist’, Wylie never allows the gestures in her own work to become too deft or elegant. She will often erase parts of a painting, sticking canvas or paper scraps over these areas and starting again. “I’ve always liked children’s painting and untaught artists”, she says. “They are doing something real for them.”’

‘Chocolate Selection: Milk Chocolate, White Chocolate & Plain Chocolate’

‘Chocolate Ghost’

 

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Nayland Blake and AA Bronson Coat, 2001
‘Across the three-channel video installation Coat, artists Nayland Blake and AA Bronson smear chocolate, then vanilla frosting across one another’s face. The two men are shown in a long kiss, chocolate on vanilla, then vanilla on chocolate.’

 

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Stephen J Shanabrook Chocolate Suicide Bomber, 2008
chocolate

 

 

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p.s. RIP P. Adams Sitney ** Steeqhen, Hey. I wish I was in LA to join the protests there. I only have a ‘must finish’ thing with food, and where that derives from, no idea. Well, I go to the West Coast on Sunday to show RT at a festival, and I’m working on the new film script, and those are my projects at the moment. I’m going to see Destroyer live tonight, unless the doctor I’m seeing about my fucked up toe today has to operate or something, and I’m excited about that. About the gig not about the doc, duh. ** Misanthrope, Good, rested, good. The age difference problem and its root in the presumption that there’s some inherently right and wrong kind of relationship involves a kind of control freak weirdness that is bewildering to me. How far is the drive to Virginia? Sorry, my geography is weak. I don’t have a clear memory of the ‘Ugly Man’ launch. Hm, was it at some average looking bar in the East Village with pool tables? I’m blanking. Strange. ** Malik, Hi, Malik! Always a real pleasure. This year has been especially weird, time passing-wise. I feel like all the Trump stuff has made it seem like an eternity in a blink. Making or thinking up weird queer art is the only way I know how to get through everything too. Anything you’re making that’s especially pleasing to you? Well, I had to fish through the Brakhages that were online basically, and there aren’t a ton. But maybe more than I had expected. Lovely to see you. Any catch up you want to provide would be highly welcome, but take care no matter what. ** julian, Hi, julian. Reading ‘ASiH’ at 15 kind of invented me, I think. I love ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’. I was disappointed when I found out that Ballard’s other stuff wasn’t like that at all. Thanks for the definition of that term/phrase. Haha, it’s true, I can proselytise about psychedelics at the drop of a hat. But luckily very few people wear hats these days. At least in my circles. ** Hugo, Ah, cool, about the coincidence. I just know too many people who look at me in horror when I say I haven’t read Proust and insist that I will not have lived a full life if I don’t read him and it’s all just way too fanatical Christian-style for me. Haha, a DC self-help book, but yes. I love talking about medium and craft, no worries. I’ve had conversations with way more than one conventional novelist who’ve told me that they had a really good idea for their novel but it wouldn’t have been easy to adapt into a movie so they nixed it. I wonder if there are filmmakers whose main goal is to have their film adapted into a video game. Paris! There are lots of things I could recommend. Let me know if you decide to pop over here. Wandering is a great way to be here. It’s the most amazing walking city. But, yeah, I can come up with suggestions or even do a coffee and tell you face to face if you want. Unfortunately you do need to worry about getting through the US border at the moment. Most of my friends over here are cancelling their US trips until further notice. Such ugliness. Happy that my blog is a secret passage out of your room, but of course I hope you can get physically out of there asap. ** Alice, Hi, Alice! I’m 100%+ in favor of your exploration obviously. Kathy’s work is so powerful if you let it be. American lit would have been so flat without her. I keep hoping the Warhol Foundation will make Warhol’s films more accessible, and I’m not at all sure why they haven’t. I think his films are by far his greatest work. Favorites … ‘Chelsea Girls’ was major for me. It really opened a lot of possibilities I didn’t know existed, even as a writer. I love ‘Lonesome Cowboys’. It’s basically impossible to see, I think, but ‘****’ (Four Stars) is incredible. I just did a Gregory Markopoulos here the other week. Let me find it. Here. There’s a lot about his films in the post, if that’s helpful. Any goodies in those random DVDs? Have a lovely week’s beginning. ** Steve, Sounds like an exciting week, for sure. East Village Radio sounds like a really great context. I wish I’d known of it before. Yeah, 1975 was when I did my college radio show. It was great timing because while I was doing it was when punk’s dawn was occurring and brand new things like Television’s ‘Little Johnny Jewel’ and Patti Smith’s ‘Piss Factory’ and the first Ramones and Suicide albums, etc. were fodder I could work with. I never made playlists, I wish I had. The ‘rave’ was just a shitty dj and the ‘sinister’ drag show was a bit of a chore unfortunately. Your weather sounds like Paris on an almost daily basis. ** Carsten, Man, thanks about the blog. That’s my hope. And creating a space where one can step out of the hell of the current political momentarily and use the other and important parts of one’s brain. Or something. ** _Black_Acrylic, My pleasure, of course, pal. I would love that Day about Little Sparta. That would be amazing if you feel like making it. Thanks so much for the offer, Ben. ** Uday, You sound better, more relaxed, more … what do the say … centered, good. Good old friends. God love them. I head first to LA on Sunday then upwards to SF on the 19th then back to LA on the 22nd and then back to Paris on the 29th. That’s the plan. ** pancakeIan, Hey. If Mr. T has his way, which he won’t, the whole USA will be like Florida with alternate terrain. I drove through Montana once on a road trip the summer I graduated from high school, and all I remember is it was much prettier than the state I had just driven through (North Dakota, I think) and the one I drove through next (Idaho, I’m pretty sure). I like winter, but, yeah, that’s many temperature degrees too far. ** HaRpEr //, Me too. I discovered his films in high school and, obviously, they were a way forward. It was nice to be indoctrinated to them via the psychedelia light shows I was used to seeing at rock shows. ‘Oh, you can do that and think at the same time!’ That ‘bum … blond’ speech is one of the great all-time film moments, I think. Biopics always suck, don’t they? Is there one that doesn’t? (I’m sure there must be). I hope that fever was just a rush of passion. You feeling ok? ** horatio, Hi h. Thanks for sitting through that Ryan/me convo. I think it was a bit rambling, but … And thanks for foisting my stuff onto your roommate. Tell him I thank him for his eyeball time. I checked, and the festival doesn’t happen for a while, but we’re going to submit when the time comes, for sure. Listen, as a massive amusement park devotee, it’s insane that I’ve never been to Cedar Point. Or King’s Island. Zac, fellow devotee, and I are always trying to figure out a way to do that. I think we’ll make a stop over there on one of our trips to LA, although we can’t this coming time. But, yes, it is the great mecca of US amusement parks at least in our lexicon. Nice: your paper about the degrading ‘Blue’. That’s beautiful. I saw an email from you when I woke up and was insufficiently coffee-d up to open it, but I will, and thank you! I’ll watch the film as soon as I get the chance. Thanks so much! ** Bill, Hi, Bill. We’ve basically sorted our SF time, and I’ll write to you soon so we can plan a meet up. Zac would really like to meet you too. I need to see ‘Coma’. Noted. ** Right. Pretty simple: chocolates in mostly unconventional forms for you today. That’s it. See you tomorrow.