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Bobby Tonge
'Bronze Burger'
Original Bronze Sculpture
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Description
In the Artists' words...
'When I was at the French foundry in Massy-Palaiseau, outside of Paris I would often cook lunch for everyone (well the artists...). One day I decided I would cook beef burgers. While I was building them, I thought wow, they would look great cast. So instead of eating mine, I made a mould of it and cast it (the others ate theirs.) I left the burger bun top out to harden and cast it three days later.
Channel 5 claimed that the UK eats around 2.5 billion beef burgers a year. Americans eat around 50 billion beef burgers annually. National Burger Day is celebrated on May 28th in Seymour, Wisconsin, which is home to the Hamburger Hall of Fame. In 2000, Kim Jong Il said that he created the “Hamburger”.'
Solid bronze sculpture. Set on solid wood.
Weighs 3.5 kilos
13cm height
15.5cm diameter
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Artist
Bobby's first solo exhibition was in Paris 1994. He's assisted several bronze sculptors and a French bronze furniture maker in a Parisian foundry before taking up residence in one of the studios there. He was represented by the gallery Edgar - Marchand D'Art in Paris. Bobby then relocated to London, where he was represented by the Ben Oakley gallery. Five years later he returned to his native Manchester
In his youth Bobby dipped his toe in Ballet by attending the Northern Ballet School. he has created wine lists, fobbed his way into kitchens all over the world to cook from Manchester to New Zealand, he's been involved in opening a few restaurants and catering venues in Paris, Manchester and London. He's cooked for celebrities, hitch hiked all over Europe, lived in Greece, Newquay, Pole, New Zealand, Paris, London and Manchester. Bobby is currently based in the Northwest of England.
He casts a lot of food.
In his own words...
I'm fascinated by things that are slightly banal. As we walk through our day its full of 'things', objects, everyday items, some we eat, some we throw away, small things, ordinary things. I've been casting them in bronze to make them permanent, infinite, reconsidered.
I once got pulled over by French customs with two jammy dodgers in bronze that had just been cast at a French foundry and looked like they had been dug up. The French authorities were concerned and asked as they picked one up, 'is this antique?' '...mmm, no (well, not yet) I replied.'
Dimensions
| Depth | 6 " |
|---|---|
| Width | 6 " |
| Height | 5 " |
| Weight | 3.50 |