The most expensive avocado bagel costs 2.95 million dollars
Lo que sería el bagel de aguacate más caro del mundo tiene un precio inicial de 2.5 millones de euros (US $ 2.95 millones). Se trata de una obra hecha por el artista Tim Bengel y que se muestra en la Semana del Arte de Berlín a partir de este miércoles 15 de septiembre.
The sculpture "Who Wants to Live Forever?"(Who wants to live forever?) It is done in gold.Bengel shows on his Instagram account that the expensive work of "millennial art" began with a real bogel.The Bagel contains five slices of tomato, five onion rings, five avocado slices and 10 arugula sheets.
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Bengel scanned in 3D printers printed Molds del Bagel.He melted 12 pounds of 18 karat gold and with a value of more than 250 thousand dollars and formed twenty -seven pieces that form a sculpture of a avocado bangel.
The sculpture has a whole concept and a message that the 29 -year -old artist wants to convey “the awareness of our present time: a time of rapid changes, social networks, fitness trends, green revolution, destruction of the environment, turocapitalism and constant self -optimization”He said through Food and Wine.
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The avocado is green gold
The artist considers that gold captures the current cultural meaning of avocado.The millennial generation symbol.In a video that shared in IG, Bengel points out: “For me it is clear, the avocado is taking a key role in our millennial culture.Blessing or curse, is the #GreEngold ".
In just a slice of avocado there is gold worth $ 14,000."For thousands of years, people have attributed meaning to gold," said Bengel.
“Either like the tears of the gods, as with the Aztecs, or as the source of eternal wealth, as with King Midas in Ancient Greece.Of course, gold and especially their mining also have considerable disadvantages.There are parallels with avocado, the ‘green gold’ of a new industry, ”said Bengel.
"Who Wants to Live Forever" will be available for sale through Galerie Rother and will also be exhibited in Art Miami in December.
This is not the first work Tim Bengel.Two years ago, also in the Berlin art week he installed near where once the Berlin wall was a work that called “Flower Skull Cemetery in which there were 10 thousand flowers and 100 marble tombstones engraved in gold.The work invited the viewer to reflect on his life from the end.
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