Installation från Moderna Museet juli 2022

Cosmic Latte

by Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén

Artist Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén (Sverige)

Date2020

MediumWallpaper, metal, textile

DimensionsVarierande mått

ClassificationTextile, Installations, Sculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberMOM/2021/161

CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThe colour of the universe is beige, it was discovered in 2001, a nuance that was named Cosmic Latte. The wallpaper in the large installation by Åsa Norberg and Jennie Sundén on the intellectual history of milk has borrowed this colour, and a print pattern shows the alveoli inside a lactating mother’s breast. Milk was promoted as a mealtime drink in Sweden as part of the welfare state project, and the embroidery in this work reproduces the pyramid shape of Tetrapak’s awkward modernist cartons. The embroidery thread is made of casein. One of Mussolini’s nationalist commercial ideas, lanital, was to replace wool with this easy-to-produce milk fibre. His grandiose project foundered, since the fabric had poor thermal properties and smelled sour in contact with the body. The Giacomo Balla-inspired sculptures in the work allude to clinical steel containers intended for the “pure, fortifying” beverage, embodying the futurist admiration for industry.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad och daterad med svart penna på baksidan av varje broderi: "COSMIC LATTE 2020 Åsa Norberg Jennie Sundén"

Works by the artist