Art Food Workshops 2015: Senses

art food 28_6900961.jpg, small, Marek Cecuła, SQUARE FORM, 1990, photo: Bill Waltzer, Art Food Workshops 2015: Senses

Students from Poland and other parts of the world will once again meet each other during workshops, where culinary art comes across design. Under the careful eye of a Polish designer Marek Cecuła they will compose meals on ceramic tableware created on their own. The effects of their work will be showcased in Gdańsk, London and New York.

Art Food 2015: Senses will be the third edition of this unique project. Until now it aimed to create unusual yet functional ceramic tableware – objects upon which culinary art is exposed and presented, objects which accentuate the beauty of the remarkable dishes and serve as canvas for works of excellent cooks and food stylists. This year Art Food project takes another step forward.

We live in the times of “food culture” – culinary art is developing at an amazing speed, it’s one of the most experimental areas of contemporary culture and for designers - it opens a new artistic ground that poses no restrictions for imagination. To answer this intense phenomena, Art Food invites young designers into a space for seeking and creation of objects, which address all of our senses: taste, smell, sight, touch and - even hearing.

This year’s edition of the project will focus on products, which will deliver new experience to its recipients, and new sensation for their senses. Participants will have to create unique ceramic tableware, which will present a new dimension of culinary experience. Projects should also serve as interactive elements, which can support work of chefs and restaurants.

This year we invite Art Food participants into an extreme and innovative interpretation of form, content and tools. We’d like them to let themselves go
- explains Marek Cecuła, the project’s curator, a famous artist, designer and pedagogue.

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To participate in this year’s workshops are students from tertiary schools: Gdańsk-based Academy of Fine Art, London-based Central St. Martin’s College, New York’s Pratt Institute, and, for the first time, Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Young designers will meet at the beginning of July in Ćmielów Design Studio launched by Polish porcelain manufactures Ćmielów and Chodzież S.A. During the three-weeks long workshops, the students will realise designs that they’ve created at their schools in the summer semester.

Design, anthropology and culinary workshops, held at the participating schools, are an integral part of the project. The students will discuss about cultural aspects of eating and how taste and the way that food is made influences how the food is served – and vice versa. Art Food also aims to educate further than school programs’ foresee: during the workshops students will also have a chance to touch the professional world of design and commercial production.

Cuisine Meets Design at the 2nd Edition of Art Food Workshops

The workshops are a unique way to learn the complex process of design – from a concept to production, from preliminary chats with the client to a tight co-operation with a producer. Experience gained during those workshops will be crucial for further career development of its participants – the project opens door to the industrial design field. The young designers will realise their projects, gain invaluable experience and make numerous business contacts.

The effects of the workshops from previous years (2013 and 2014) have been presented in Wrocław, Poznań, Łódź, London, Stoke-on-Trent and New York. This year those works will be exhibited during the One Design Week in Bulgaria. Two objects of last year’s Art Food will be produced for Central St Martin’s. Furthermore, works of two Polish graduates of the program, Ewelina Wiśniowska and Alicja Patanowska, were showcased during Frankfurt-based Ambiente fairs. Patanowska’s other work Plantacja was bought by the Shanghai Museum of Glass. Plantacja will soon become a part of the museum’s core exhibition.

Works created during this year’s workshops will be presented in Gdańsk, then in London and New York. The best projects will be produced by professional manufacturers and designated for sale.

The exhibition in New York will be held at the Pratt Institute from 9th to 15th November 2015.

Pratt Studios
4th floor gallery
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn 11205, New York

Culture.pl is the main partner of the project, in the frameworks of a project promoting Polish design abroad. The project is co-organised by Marek Cecuła’s Modus Design Studio, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Central St. Martin’s College in London, Pratt Institute in New York, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and the two porcelain manufacturers Ćmielów and Chodzież.

Source: press materials, transl. Agata Dudek, 25/03/15

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