Swiss artist Peter Wüthrich has incorporated books into his artworks since the early 1990s. Literary food (Il banchetto dell’arte) was created in May 2007 to mark the inauguration of Galleria Christian Stein’s exhibition spaces on Via Gallarate in Milan and in Pero, Italy.
The installation consists of cans of different sizes covered with pages from exhibition catalogs of the various artists who have shown their work at Galleria Christian Stein. At the inaugural dinner, each table was dedicated to a different artist. At the center of each table was a small pyramid of cans. At the end of the dinner, these cans were collected and displayed as “literary food.” The work is an homage to the Galleria Christian Stein as well as to some of the central figures of contemporary Italian art.
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