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"Mr. Goldbar - Baby Bar"
by Daniel Allen Cohen
$4000
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Acrylic black shadow box with gold candy bar 16”x16”x3”
Signed by Daniel Allen Cohen & numbered 1/3
Children crave chocolate, adults crave money and power.
In his series, Precious Bars, Cohen hybridizes these cross-generational desires and presents over-sized objects of nostalgia, lust and yearning. To do this, he parodies packaging of iconic chocolate bars that promise sugary treats, slightly altering their text to seduce with promise of wealth instead—Mr. Goodbar becomes Mr. Goldbar, KitKat turns into GoldRush and Heath changes to Wealth. Each package is torn partially open, revealing not the chocolate of the original but the power signifier of the pastiche: stacks of money or bars of gold.
From the collection of Brett and Woody Harrelson, Los Angeles, CA.