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Confectioners around the world love to work with sugar.
Berlin-based artistJoseph Marrhas turned sugar on its head, creating sculptures with sugar due to its unique visual features.
These aren’t detailed desserts but rather works of art meant to be admiredand resisted.
It’s just colorful, glass-like material.
Makes you want to touch it and eat it, and have it.
The artist draws a connection between glucose and a shifting identity within ourselves throughout the day.
But for all the visual allure of sugar, Marr never expected people to venture to eat his sculpture.
The idea was so distant that many of his pieces have been exhibited without a protective encasing.
After seeing people licking the artwork, he remembered thinking, What are you doing?
You don’t know who’s licked it before.
adding the sobering thought that nobody gave it a second thought.
To him, knowing what it’s made of brings the audience closer to the work.
Marr’s latest piece,Open Heart, is an 800 kg sugar sculpture of a human heart.
To keep it from melting, viewers had to ride generator bikes to power its air conditioner.
The piece was on view until October 6 at Berlin’s Park am Gleisdreieck.
To stay up to date with Marr’s sugar sculptures, you might follow him onInstagram.
Berlin-based artist Joseph Marr creates visually alluring sculptures made out of an unexpected materialsugar.
It’s just colorful, glass-like material.
Makes you want to touch it and eat it, and have it.
It was weird, he said.
Viewers were meant to save it by jumping on a generator bike to power its air conditioner.
