The Little Machine

Eat ME

Aldo Iacobelli and Franklin Holfeld


Opening Friday 30th June 6pm – 8pm
1 July June – 29 July 2023

EAT ME presents work by Aldo Iacobelli and Franklin Holfeld, The exhibition title is inspired by Iacobelli’s diptych of giant biscuit paintings: pressed into the icing of one is “Aldo”, and into the other, “Iacobelli”. Both Iacobelli and Holfeld are fascinated with orality – eating, taste, teeth and tongues. But the exhibition title has a deeper significance, indicating the complex relation that these artists, of different generations, have developed with high and mass culture, which feeds and nourishes their practices in striking and distinctive ways. Critical, libidinal, anxious and funny, their works suggest how we too might find and fashion authentic values and identities from the ingredients of a culture that with each generation seems only to become more inauthentic, bewildering, oppressive and indigestible.
Aldo Iacobelli ALDO IACOBELLI (1995)
Aldo Iacobelli Daily’s Pulp with hanging mechanism (2015)
Aldo Iacobelli, 12 working drawings for “70 Erzbischofgasse Vienna” suite of paintings (2023)
Aldo Iacobelli, For Nazim (2022)
Franklin Holfeld, Spiky Pink Ceramic Object
Franklin Holfeld, Orange, Yellow, and Pink Ceramics Object
Ribbed Ceramics object with yellow and blue glaze
Franklin Holfeld, White and Orange painted hanging sculpture
Aldo Iacobelli (L) Brain with a hanging mechanism; Franklin Holfeld (R), Halloween Mask
Franklin Holfeld, Photograph of green gourd on pink background
Franklin Holfeld
Aldo Iacobelli IACOBELLI (1995)
Aldo Iacobelli ALDO (1995)
Franklin Holfeld, Creature Eating Another Creature
Franklin Holfeld, Bugs

Photography: Sam Roberts http://samroberts.photo