Ping Magazine recently published a roundup of the best art on show at the new 101Tokyo Art Fair in Akihabara where fourteen Japanese and fourteen international galleries presented artists.
We giggled at the works of Osamu Watanabe from Yamaguchi who has applied cake decorations to all sorts of things under the influence of his mother, who was the instructor of a confectionery class.
What did Watanabe have on show at 101 Tokyo? He presented very sweet versions of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Myron’s Discobolos (see below). We don’t think you can eat them, but Watanabe’s remix of the Discobolos – in which our beloved fifth-century athlete stands ready to send a fruit-laden torte soaring through the sky – is eye candy of a kind we’ve never seen before.
A virtual visit to Watanabe’s gallery brought further delight. There we discovered something we like even more – a stately sculpture of Hermes sporting a fruity fro (see above).
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