![I love Julia Chiang’s sculpture series, My Rotten Apples. She really manages to capture the essence and fragility of the apples in a unique way, and turns the undesirable into covetable objects, by casting them in porcelain and coating them with a 5% gold lustre.
Julia’s signed and numbered rotten apples are handmade and signed and are available at the New Museum Store for $200.
This unique edition of 21, smaller-scale rotten apples stems from an upcoming large-scale floor sculpture entitled “Never Enough,” in which Julia cast apples in porcelain and stacked the resulting “perfect” apples in a large pile to represent desire, excess and greed. Noticing that when removing the pieces from the molds at various stages of wetness she could let them droop and collapse in different ways, Julia was reminded of rotting or deformed apples and fell in love with the forms and their contrasting symbolic nature—desire and discard—also making clear why this is the perfect icon for New York City.
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I love Julia Chiang’s sculpture series, My Rotten Apples. She really manages to capture the essence and fragility of the apples in a unique way, and turns the undesirable into covetable objects, by casting them in porcelain and coating them with a 5% gold lustre.
Julia’s signed and numbered rotten apples are handmade and signed and are available at the New Museum Store for $200.
This unique edition of 21, smaller-scale rotten apples stems from an upcoming large-scale floor sculpture entitled “Never Enough,” in which Julia cast apples in porcelain and stacked the resulting “perfect” apples in a large pile to represent desire, excess and greed. Noticing that when removing the pieces from the molds at various stages of wetness she could let them droop and collapse in different ways, Julia was reminded of rotting or deformed apples and fell in love with the forms and their contrasting symbolic nature—desire and discard—also making clear why this is the perfect icon for New York City.
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