VT LOVES: GINGERBREAD and CANDY GALLERIES|HENRY HARGREAVES & CAITLIN LEVIN

While candy is fun, colorful, and anything but serious, food artists Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves were excited by the challenge to take it to the next level. Invited to create something unique for a show at Dylan's Candy Bar during Art Basel. This seemed like the perfect place to showcase their ability to turn something traditional (gingerbread houses) on its head and reinvent the medium. Seeing that they would be part of an art festival, recreating iconic art galleries and museums from around the globe seemed fitting. An interest in architecture spurred a focus on recreating graphic architectural images shot in black and white, while also being a deliberate antidote to the vivid colors and sweetness often associated with the medium. Like most projects taken on by the two Caitlin and Henry were met with their share of challenges, how does one make the Louvre's glass pyramid from candy, and what is the best method to strengthen thousands of candy brick to turn them into the support walls of the MAS Antwerp or curve the walls of Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome. In the end however, these beautiful and fun images emerged, a little bit fine art and a pinch of Candyland.

All Museums sculptures are made of Gingerbread, cotton candy, licorice, sugar, chocolate, sour flush, lollipop sticks, candy balls, taffy, bubble gum, lego candy, sesame candy, sour rolls and icing

GUGGENHEIM

TATE-MODERN

KARUIZAWA

LOUVRE

MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM

MAXXI

MUSEO SOUMAYA