Emilia Bergmark Potato The Great
2020
Acrylic paint on pigmented Jesmonite
22 x 16 x 12 cm
Edition of 25 + 2 AP
Signed certificate
£269.00 – £300.00
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The Artwork
A hand-painted, cast copy of the potato that came second in the 2019 Harrogate Giant Vegetable Competition.
Each edition is hand-painted by the artist and therefore unique, so will differ from the piece pictured here.
The Artist
Emilia Bergmark (born 1986) is a visual artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and Malmö. Based on everyday stories and observations, she develops poetic and humorous installations that combine sculpture, writing, interior design, film and print. An ongoing strand of her research explores non-human objects from an anthropocentric viewpoint, analysing and critiquing the systems by which humankind imposes order and meaning on the world. By giving voice to the non-human she creates tragicomic scenes which poke fun at the idiosyncrasies of modern humanity.
Launch Exhibition
24th June 2020
An online film screening marks the launch of the first Thing, ‘Potato The Great’ by Emilia Bergmark. Bergmark’s sculpture is an edition of 25 jesmonite casts of the potato that came second in the 2019 Harrogate Giant Vegetable Competition. Each cast has been hand-painted by the artist with a unique abstract motif.
The first of these casts was 3D-scanned and animated to create a film, entitled ‘Potato The Greatest’. In this film, our potato-protagonist tells us the tale of his genesis and his close brush with glory at the Harrogate Giant Vegetable Competition. He goes on to deliver a brief but aggrandized history of the potato in an attempt to dispel the potato’s reputation as a lowly “working class vegetable” and to re-align it as a vegetable of illustrious lineage, hence why he has now been immortalised as a contemporary sculpture.
Emilia Bergmark (born 1986) is a visual artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and Malmö. Based on everyday stories and observations, she develops poetic and humorous installations that combine sculpture, writing, interior design, film and print. An ongoing strand of her research explores nature from an anthropocentric viewpoint, analysing and critiquing the systems by which humankind imposes order on the world.
Upcoming exhibitions include a commission for Roskilde Festival (DK). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Landskaber’, Kunsthal Varte, DK (2019); ‘Burnout’, Kunsthal 44 Møen, DK (2019); ‘Heaven and Earth’, Marwan, NL (2018). She has received MFAs from The Royal Danish Art Academy (DK) and School of the Damned (UK).
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