What a great idea is Restaurant Day – Everyone can open a restaurant (bar, café, food stall, barbecue…) for a day. The next one is on May 18, 2013. If you make experiences with this idea, please write in and send your stories and pictures!
Restaurant Day from Cocoa on Vimeo.
A person seems to drown in sugar: 40 kilos of sugar comprise the average annual consumption of a person in Central Europe. The installation by Georges Wenger shows two outstretched arms in a mountain of sweet white, spilled by a shopping cart.
When is enough enough? The Rothushalle in Solothurn, Switzerland currently hosts an exhibition that tackles the concept of food as taken-for-granted. The title, Mahlzeit!(“Dinner Time!”), points towards ambiguities and absurdities in the production of food.
Adrian Bütikofer‘s abstract sculptures, for example, hint towards the symmetry of the well-fed and the hungry, two forms seem to bow in front of an empty bowl.
Curt Walter’s installation “public toilet” puts the pervesity of modern food scandals “on the brink between chemistry and sickness” on display.
The exhibition shows the works of nine artist, all in relation to food production. If you are in the vicinity of the Swiss Kanton Solothurn, you have the opportunity to visit the exhibition until April 7, 2013, the entry is free of charge. A catalogue of the exhibition is available, a leaflet can be downloaded here.