Sweet art

hat traditional savoury staple of Japanese gastronomy, miso is beginning (1909-11) from the canvas and into a characterful collection of tableware where ‘functional objects would be as alive as those in the paintings’, as she puts it. This is one of a three-part project, which also gives physical life to the artwork of Jean-Siméon Chardin and Jan Groover. Philipponnat models individual pieces using software before casting them in either earthenware slip or terracotta clay. Finer details are attached by hand, the terracotta imprinted with a piece of textile, mirroring the criss-cross grains of de Vlaminck’s brush motions. Next in the pipeline is a collection inspired by Giorgio de Chirico.