Clare Grill, When You Get That Old, 2009. Oil on linen over panel, 20 x 16 in. Courtesy the artist.Gastr0-Vision is the title of my monthly column on the Art21 blog. The series is dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture.
This month, I've written about three artists who take vastly different approaches to my most loved confection: cake. Here's an excerpt:
My love of cake straddles the line between innocent obsession and utter perversion. I tend to think of cakes like my favorite celebrity bodies. Be it big and firm like Hugh Jackman, petite and voluptuous like Salma Hayek, or thick and stacked à la Serena Williams, I have never laid eyes on a cake I didn’t fancy the same way. In my most delicious and twisted fantasy, I die face-down in red velvet with pound cake in my left hand and German chocolate in my right—an orgy so sweet that it literally takes me all the way to heaven. You see, I am absolutely crazy about cake, and so the (self-indulgent) focus of this Gastro-Vision post...Continue reading here.
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