Pablo Bronstein. Cuisine

Cuisine is Pablo Bronstein’s joyfully sardonic homage to the world of food. It includes full-colour images and details of thirty-five recent paintings and drawings, covering vast aspects of food production and presentation. Spinning a narrative of surreal excess and decadence, the paintings depict a compendium of factories, implements, cutlery, and actual foodstuffs in his signature irreverent and historic style, brought into greater focus through roughly laid out details. Most of the works are reproduced here for the first time and are accompanied by descriptive captions penned by the artist. There are a further twenty-seven black-and-white photographs taken by Bronstein especially for the publication which showcase cakes and desserts, sculpted by him, evoking the unpalatable and overwrought creations found in early twentieth-century recipe books.