A work in progress exhi­bi­tion which sheds light on 16 selected artists responses to the sub­ject mat­ter that is Bread & Grains.

The exhi­bi­tion and work­shops are based on Multiculturalism & Bread. Grains go hand in hand with human­ity, it is as old as civ­i­liza­tion itself and is uni­ver­sally known as a  sym­bol of life and culture.

The inten­tion is for the viewer/visitor to per­ceive this con­nec­tion between us and bread from a new per­spec­tive, and think of how its been a com­pan­ion coex­ist­ing with us through the ages.  The viewer is to travel through time and cul­ture with bread as the con­stant motif through which humanity’s past and recent exis­tence has been sus­tained. 

artbelowzero is work­ing with writ­ers: the­o­ret­i­cal, his­tor­i­cal and anthro­po­log­i­cal within food and art acad­e­mia, on the fore­word and intro­duc­tion which is split into three segments.

The objec­tive is to pro­duce the show with bread work­shops and exhibit it in India.

MEDIUMS

Painting, Photography, Video, Sculpture, Print,  Performance and Workshops.

TOPICS (which were given as pos­si­ble start­ing points for artists)

Baker | Machinery & Tools > Windmills | Water wheels | Plough | Fire | Ovens | Toasters  Tax on Bread | Flour | Bread Riots (The food­stuff has been involved in var­i­ous wars and altercations)

Science of Yeast. liv­ing organ­isms| Bacteria | Bread Marketing (Bread is sold to dif­fer­ent classes in dif­fer­ing ways / Packaging)

Finance & Bread | Bread & Friendship | Beer & Bread

Grains & Grain Products: Amaranth | Barley | Barley Bran | Barley Flakes |Barley Flour| Barley Groats | Barley Hulls | Barley Starches | Buckwheat |Buckwheat Bran

Feminism > Super slim Atkins Diet > No Bread |Anti Bread

Domesticity > Bread and a women’s place being in the kitchen

Famous speeches about bread > Political elite and / or Celebrity

TOPICS Continued

Historic Celebrations / Bread or Festivals

Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead) Croissant etc.

Bread Tales & Stories i.e The Brothers Grimm etc.

Sing-a-song-of –six­pence.

Y= Mc 2 Yeast = Multi Culture Squared

Bread say­ings. ‘The Bread Winner’, ‘A Bakers Dozen’, ‘Let them Eat Cake’

‘You don’t know which side your bread is but­tered’ ‘He’s Brown Bread’

‘Bread is that staff of life’

Art | Fashion | Music | Sport | Film

Cultural ref­er­ences of / for Bread

Bread & Grains show 2012, artists are for­mer grad­u­ates from the below men­tioned London colleges.

• 1. Eric Ayotte Goldsmiths College
• 2. Neil Montier London College of Communication
• 3. Liane Lang Royal Academy Schools / Goldsmiths College
• 4. Aaron Fickling The Slade School of Fine Art
• 5. Gordon Cheung Royal College of Art / Central St. Martins College.
• 6. Alexander Bettler Royal College of Art
• 7. Tin Tin   The Slade School of Fine Art
• 8. Emily Collard Royal College of Art / The Slade School
• 9. Andrew Stahl The Slade School of Fine Art
• 10. Duval Timothy Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
• 11. Isha Bohling. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
• 12. Sarbjit Girn Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
• 13. Will Martyr. Royal College of Art / The Slade School of Fine Art
• 14. Alex Dewart Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
• 15. Weng Man   Royal Academy Schools
• 16. Max Fieldman Chelsea College of Art & Design

CONTEXTUALISATION

• Emily Earheart School of Oriental & African Studies
• Janine Catalano The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Critical the­o­rist  Awaiting Confirmation

Exhibition and tour dates to fol­low shortly