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Janine Antoni

Gnaw

1992

Three-part installation: 600 lbs. of chocolate gnawed by the artist; 600 lbs. of lard gnawed by the artist; display with 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from the lard cube; 27 heart-shaped packages made from the chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube

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Medium Three-part installation: 600 lbs. of chocolate gnawed by the artist; 600 lbs. of lard gnawed by the artist; display with 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from the lard cube; 27 heart-shaped packages made from the chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube
Dimensions Overall dimensions variable
Credit Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest Fund
Object number 1320.2000.a-p
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni

Bahamian, born 1964 3 works online

Antoni emerged in the New York art world in the early 1990s with lively works that played with relationships between her body and the material world.

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