Video: Installation Plot, or a city of 80 kg of potatoes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Potatoes are not only "fried, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes. Further: french fries, potato pie, and so on," as Tosya Kislitsyna listed from the excellent film "Girls". It is also a building material from which entire cities with skyscrapers, palaces and towers can be built. Do not believe me - ask Peter Root, who in three weeks slashed 80 kg of potato tubers to carve out of them a city reminiscent of Istanbul. The installation - and this is it - was named Plot … The sculptor cannot live without potato fornication, and at least once a week he enjoys his favorite delicacy. Therefore, God himself ordered him to arm himself with buckets of this root crop and conjure over them for three weeks, using only a knife and a knife sharpener. Fortunately, the author of the installation decided not to clean all 80 kg, otherwise the construction of the city would have been delayed for a couple of months. So that the potatoes are not all weathered and dried, Peter decided to leave the peel in some of its areas. Despite the fact that the potato metropolis was created in Turkish Istanbul, the author rejects that he used it as a prototype. Although there are similarities, he himself admits it. In fact, this masterpiece included elements of many cities that the sculptor happened to visit with one mission or another.
Leaving the peel on some of the tubers, the author made sure that they began to sprout and give green shoots. This became an additional decoration of the installation, giving it an amazing and fresh look. And in general, the author believes that potatoes are a wonderful material for creativity, since they are easy to get, easy to process, and when they dry, weathered and moldy, they change their color, which means that the appearance of the installation also changes.
The plot potato town can be seen at the Turkish Gallery Studio 9 Istanbul from 8 March to 12 April.
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