Cosimo cavallaro biography of christopher
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Jesus and chocolate. I love both. So when I heard the song “Chocolate Jesus” for the first time last week (on a podcast about religious kitsch), it sounded yummy. The song is satirical, but as I listened to it, I thought, I bet candy makers have actually tried this. And sure enough, they have.
Besides making a splash in the folk rock world (in the world of candy sales, not so much), chocolate Jesus has also cropped up in at least three works of visual art in the last twenty years, the most recent one garnering a firestorm of media attention.
This list is not comprehensive, but here’s what I could dredge up in the way of chocolate Jesuses.
Chocolate Jesus in the Visual Arts
Trans-substantiation 2, sculpture by Richard Manderson ()
In , philosophy student Richard Manderson created one hundred jam-filled, Jesus-shaped chocolates, which he sold at an arts center gift shop in Canberra, Australia. No one thought much of it . . . until a condemnatory headline in a US newspaper
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Chocolate Jesus
This 6-foot sculpture of Christ, currently being exhibited in a hotel in New York City, has angered Catholic campaigners in the city. The problem, it seems, is that the artist, the Canadian-born Cosimo Cavallaro created the sculpture from milk chocolate.
Cavallaro is well known for his imaginative work with food as art. His previous efforts include "repainting a Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, spraying 5 tons of pepper jack cheese on a Wyoming home and festooning a four-poster bed with pounds of processed ham." He hopes that visitors to the gallery space in the hotel will not only view the Christ but also take the opportunity to interact with the sculpture -- to lick it. Cavallaro maintains he's not being disrespectful; he wants to explore something deeply spiritual in permitting the visitor to touch and taste the sweetness of the figure he has represented. After all, he says, Christians receive the "body and blood" of Christ as food in the act of h
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Cosimo Cavallaro is an accomplished director and filmskapare, though he found greater fame with more tangible, less permanent media. Inthe Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist covered Room at the Washington Jefferson Hotel in Manhattan with cheese; later that same year the artist spray-coated the British model Twiggy in strings of Easy Cheese; in he installed Absolute Pressed Ham, a bed covered in pounds of sliced ham, at the Lab Gallery in Manhattan; and in Cavallaro created My Sweet Lord, a sculpture of Jesus fashioned from chocolate, outraging the ultra-Conservative head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue.
More recently, in he built man America Grate Again, a short vägg of cheese, constructed from blocks of Mexican cotija, close to the US border in Tecate, California where then President Trump had begun building a wall of equally preposterous stature.
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