sad slag platter (origo)

by Matti Sumari

Artist Matti Sumari (Finland, född 1987)

Date2021

MediumMetal

DimensionsYttermått: 16,5 × 15,5 × 1,3 cm

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden, Finland

Object NumberMOM/2021/340

CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkMatti Sumari processes found materials dumped in his surroundings, often in and around the Alta studio building on Celsiusgatan in Malmö. Plastic crates for fruit from all over the world, bike stands, punnets and pickled vegetables. Sumari’s practice combines his interest in the circulation of commodities, economic systems and microorganisms. The social sculpture project sad slag platters transforms waste from art previews, non-refundable beer cans, into a memorial. Visitors contribute their empty cans, and the aluminium is melted in a furnace made out of a metal barrel for “Consumer’s Pride”, genetically modified soya bean oil from India. Casts of pickled cucumbers and fragments of plastic crates become sculptural collages, as polished and shiny as jewellery. Like distilled images of the collective pleasure of an evening in the company of art.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad

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