BUDDING artist Kit Sadgrove has sold his first artwork to a Californian millionaire for $840 – just three weeks after the work went on sale on a national art site.
The sculpture features a large green burger box set on an orange cafeteria tray, with chips scattered over it. Kit says it references our love/hate relationship with fast food.
The Californian buyer may have been looking for art for her walls, having just bought a $2.4million Los Angeles house that overlooks the Pacific ocean.
Kit said, “I don’t know if she’s a burger fan or not, but since she lives in California and can afford the finest food, I suspect she isn’t. And with the work being titled ‘Modern Vices 3: Burger box and fries’, that’s a clue.”
The sculpture is one in a series on vices that Kit has created. Others include drunkenness and intravenous drug addiction.
The work involved commissioning 3D printing, followed by accurately baking, drilling, bolting and gluing four types of plastic together. Once packaged, the artwork was so large it had to be couriered in a Homebase garden storage container.
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