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The starting point for Elvira Bättig’s installation The Apple of my Eye was a trip to Turin, more specifically a visit to the Museo della Frutta, located on the first floor of one of the buildings of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the University of Turin, in Via Pietro Giuria. This monographic museum is dedicated to the work of the ceroplast (wax modeler) Francesco Garnier-Valletti (1808-1889), whose artistic and written legacy forms the core of the collection, including over a thousand artificial fruit models he created. These perfectly reproduced models – apples, pears, cherries, grapes – have been on permanent display since the museum opened in 2007, presented in a scientific-didactic order: classified, numbered, systematised and conserved behind glass in custom-made, dimly lit display cases.
On entering the Café des Glaces in Tonnerre, the first thing you see are the untreated backs of large, unmounted canvases hanging loosely from...More
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The starting point for Elvira Bättig’s installation The Apple of my Eye was a trip to Turin, more specifically a visit to the Museo della Frutta, located on the first floor of one of the buildings of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the University of Turin, in Via Pietro Giuria. This monographic museum is dedicated to the work of the ceroplast (wax modeler) Francesco Garnier-Valletti (1808-1889), whose artistic and written legacy forms the core of the collection, including over a thousand artificial fruit models he created. These perfectly reproduced models – apples, pears, cherries, grapes – have been on permanent display since the museum opened in 2007, presented in a scientific-didactic order: classified, numbered, systematised and conserved behind glass in custom-made, dimly lit display cases.
On entering the Café des Glaces in Tonnerre, the first thing you see are the untreated backs of large, unmounted canvases hanging loosely from...More
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