Is there dough for a bread house when the market salivates over paintings?
Dealer to present novel construction at Art Basel, with an asking price ‘in the range of $3m’
21 September 2021 - 20:13
In 2004, artist Urs Fischer started to build prototypes of a 5m-high gingerbread-style house made from about 2,500 loaves of bread. It was a process, he says, filled with trial and error: binding agents including marzipan and raw dough were attempted and discarded (too unstable), until he discovered polyurethane foam was the ideal mortar...
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