Who says you can’t play with food? Certainly not creative people. Already in the 16th century, the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo liked to compose faces from fruits and vegetables. Today food remains a real subject of creation: designers, fashion creators, scenographers, craftsmen and contemporary influencers play with what’s in our plates to prepare singular pieces and iconographies inspired by the culinary world.
The magazine dedicated to the pleasures of the table and travel, mint, looks at the concept of « Food Porn » (culinary pornography) in this appetizing moodboard.
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Passion
FOOD
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Prescripteur
GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO
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TOQUE
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INSTAGRAM
Radical Food
Just as radical design gurus Ettore Sottsass and Alessi or Maurizio Cattelan and Pieropaolo Ferrari played with culinary conventions in the 1970s, set designers and photographers – Chloé Gassian, Aleksandra Kingo, Charlotte Abramow, Studio Paris Se Quema – are playing with the sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive properties of food to compose special worlds, between obscene impressions and offbeat humor.
Fashion phenomenon
The fashion world is also developing a strong appetite for food imagination. Food is hijacked to fit the body’s shape and recreate everyday objects – handbag, bra, hat, necklace – with an entertaining twist. A « bon vivant » spirit transformed into an Instagram phenomenon: the accounts @nicolemclaughlin or @gabbois with hundreds of thousands of followers feed their feeds with culinary derision and detour.
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Bread design addict
In the home, the new discipline of infusing design with the codes of food can be seen in the experimental creations of Sam Stewart and Farine Furniture, who are devoted to the cult of the breadstick. The dough, easy to model, becomes a material with which to play, divert, invent.
Working with flour and water as a ceramist would work with clay or stoneware, the American artist and baker Lexie Smith (Bread on Earth) makes her bread sculptures a social, political, economic and ecological manifesto. In her hands, baguette, hallah, focaccia, matzah, pita become the barometer of our different cultures and societies to feed our reflection.
Art or food? Both!
Illusions of materials and forms… The boundaries between art and food are blurring. Already depicted in ancient still lifes, food still inspires artists and artisans to create exhibition-worthy art pieces. Culinary artist Laila Gohar creates unique experiences using food as an artistic medium and as a communication tool.
Food totems
Emotional visually and tastefully. An art that Sayaka Kaneko and Charlotte Sitbon of Balbosté, and Clara Diez of Formaje master to perfection. With their talented hands and sharp flair, these culinary artists transform food into veritable art totems, staged like modern-day still lifes. Vanities of a new kind.
