Carlo Marcucci

"Wheatfields LXV (65)", 2007, udon noodles and squid ink spaghetti on wood, 18 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 6"

"Wheatfields XLVI (46)", 2004, squid ink spaghetti and udon noodles on wood, 19 x 24 x 6" + 19 x 14 x 6"

"Wheatfields XVIII (28)", 2001, spinach spaghetti, regular spaghetti, rice spaghetti and squid ink spaghetti on painted wood, 10 x 6 x 6" closed, 15 x 6 x 6" when open

Hopefully you read the materials that these sculptures are made out of! You wouldn't believe it when seeing these in person or in these photographs, but all of these pieces are made out of food! Whether spaghetti, rice or udon noodles at some point you've probably cooked one or all of these items and never thought that that a brilliant sculpture could come from it. Here is a clip of the artist statement by Carlo Marcucci on his Wheatfields series: 

"In our industrialized world, the average person’s familiarity with food in its natural stage has become more abstract, because we are now mostly a society of urban dwellers. We forage and hunt for food in markets and restaurants, rather than forests and prairies. Everyday we ingest foods containing processed ingredients foreign to nature that we aren’t familiar with. Most of what we purchase is grown, processed, packaged and shipped in containers from somewhere else than we reside. Many of these foods have lost their original shape, texture and appearance. 

'Wheatfields' and its related series 'Wheatboxes' are a series of works featuring wall-mounted sculptures made of Italian and Japanese rice and wheat spaghetti. These minimalist compositions are abstract interpretations of food containers and the disproportionate role they have in modern processed food distribution. In a metaphorical sense, the box containing the spaghetti is reborn as a box constructed of spaghetti.
I present the viewer with sculptures created with common food ingredients that, for all intended purposes, have lost their recognizable shape, texture and any quality that might suggest any edible product."

To read the full artist statement click here