No Friend of Stagnation: 95th Birthday Commemorative Exhibition (Part I)

Daniel Spoerri - ballet dancer, explorer of the "multiple", object artist, Nouveau Réaliste, Eat-artist, master of chance - would have been 95 years old in March 2025. At the beginning of this year, Levy Galerie and alexander levy are dedicating an extensive exhibition to Spoerri in Berlin. "Now the most important seat at the table will remain empty." —Thomas Levy As early as 1959, Daniel Spoerri impressed his audiences with his three-dimensional gravity defying still lifes, the Trap-pictures. But Spoerri did not content himself with this invention, time and again, he continued to deliver the unexpected. As is exemplified in his banquets, where he explored and questioned eating habits, making them tangible as Eat Art. This was also the case with his bread dough objects. In Paris, he had seen how fresh, unsold bread was thrown away in the evening. He reversed the process adding waste into bread dough, which he then baked. In 1961, the resulting taboo-shattering objects, Catalogue Taboo, were presented at an exhibition opening in Copenhagen eliciting their desired effect: visitors were outraged. Daniel Spoerri wondered in bewilderment why people would be upset by his bread dough objects, and not over the fresh bread that ended up wasted every day.

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