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Spaghetticometti

Giacometti spaghetti
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Giacometti made tall elongated sculptural figures. If you're not familiar with them, check the link before reading further. They are totally unique and really excellent.

The idea here is very simple and consists of remaking a set of similarly elongated Giacometti forms out of pasta. A few of these spaghettified figures dropped into a pot of boiling water would soon be transformed into a tasty meal. I'm sure Giacometti would have approved.

xenzag, May 24 2015

Giacometti Figures http://istanbularts...e-qui-marchent-.jpg
typical Giacomettis [xenzag, May 24 2015]

Mondrian Battenburg http://www.youtube....watch?v=sSMISiSAtTY
Formula = Artist/Food [zen_tom, Jun 02 2015]

Magritte (Liquorice) Pipe http://gavinturk.com/artworks/image/13/
Cast in bronze (quite clever actually) [zen_tom, Jun 02 2015]

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       //I'm sure Giacometti would have approved.//   

       This is one of those cases where "I'm sure" throws the whole subsequent statement into doubt.
MaxwellBuchanan, May 24 2015
  

       I'm not quite sure.
blissmiss, May 24 2015
  

       But of course! [+]
pertinax, May 28 2015
  

       Spaghetticometti, with Francis Bacon
hippo, May 28 2015
  

       Best served with Parmigianino cheese flakes. (named after the artist Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
xenzag, May 28 2015
  

       Very nice linked image.
normzone, May 30 2015
  

       Yes - sacrilegious to subvert Giacometti's wonderful pieces into pasta, but I initially had liquorice in mind, those being Giacomiquoirice-men of course.
xenzag, May 30 2015
  

       Please explain to me how the shape doesn't get all distorted and hunched over and sort of in a big pile of pasta when it's served. I'm not seeing it. Guide me there xenie.
blissmiss, May 30 2015
  

       It does exactly what you have described..... a tangle of elongated arms, bodies and legs that you have to hag into like a savage! Pour on that red tomato sauce to add to the drama.
xenzag, May 30 2015
  

       Alrighty then.
blissmiss, May 30 2015
  

       Can we have a side dish of jolly, round people by Arcimboldo, for contrast?
pertinax, Jun 02 2015
  

       //jolly, round people by Arcimboldo// yes, or perhaps Henry Moore potatoes?   

       I'm sure there are hosts of wonderful artists who's living works we can identify and commodify as some kind of foodstuff or other.   

       Some of Antony Gormley's works look a bit like unshelled peanuts, so there's a lead there.   

       Magritte Liquorice pipes, perhaps? (though we might have to be wary of trading standards law on that one)   

       There's Mondrian too, who strikes me would be ideally suited to a new form of Battenburg cake.
zen_tom, Jun 02 2015
  
      
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