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If you see a yellow-ish sculpture of a man’s head rolling through the Loop Friday afternoon, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you: It really is a bust of President Barack Obama made of butter.
The butter head stars in the latest performance art project from Industry of the Ordinary, helmed by Chicagoans-via-England Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson as a way to trigger response to pop culture and art. (Locals might remember Brooks and Wilson for the ice sculpture of the Ten Commandments they carted down Michigan Avenue in 2005 en route to the Art Institute of Chicago.)
For this project, they hired Ohio artist Bob Kling, known for his butter cow sculptures, to carve Obama’s face from a mound of the unsalted emulsion. Kling worked several days in a cooler in Chicago’s Fulton Market District to perfect the final product.
Why butter? Wilson said it’s one of those peculiar American traditions that’s perennially celebrated in the country’s culture. The bust of the president, he said, aims to cause a response at “a pivotal moment” in the country less than two weeks before the Nov. 6 election.
“The piece is, itself, not pro- or anti-Obama,” Wilson said. “It seeks to provoke a reaction.”
Toaster
October 27th, 2012
He didn’t dare make one of Debbie Blabbermouth Shultz
Will Profit
October 27th, 2012
They switched to butter because people were complaining of the smell the one made of dog shit emitted.
The Lucky One
October 27th, 2012
It’s really frozen camel urine.
Barry has an advantage over prophet Moe, Moe had to drink his warm.
IronyCurtain
October 27th, 2012
No way I’m putting that on my baked potato.
cato
October 27th, 2012
It certainly provokes reactions for me.
Anger, distrust, disgrace and disgust.
Stirrin the B.S.
October 27th, 2012
I can’t believe it’s not butter, er umm, a president.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 27th, 2012
Stick it in the oven and watch it melt.
Unneutral
October 27th, 2012
Obama will need it on Nov. 7th, I figure he’ll be toast by then.
Diann
October 27th, 2012
You know, the New York State Fair had a butter sculpture of a cow holding the Olympic torch. Somehow Bessie seems so much more plausible compared to Butterbama
moarkdave
October 27th, 2012
What a waste of good butter. What did it do to deserve that kind of abuse. Now the butter is too rancid to use.
Also, I would think that the ears would fall off being that big and heavy. What supports them on that thing?
CrustyB
October 27th, 2012
I hope this doesn’t involve a trick with Michelle holding a box of butter over her chest.
Ricky
October 27th, 2012
the sculptor, besides being a kiss-ass idiot. there must be lots of hidden scaffolding in place to keep those big assed ears in place.
LadyGun12
October 27th, 2012
My reaction? Ewwww.
Joe
October 27th, 2012
A little dab’ll do ya. Don’t want no part of that butter.
xthred
October 27th, 2012
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
marleenna1959
October 27th, 2012
My reaction? Put it in a microwave and watch it explode.
Edith McCrotch
October 27th, 2012
A dollar’ll get you 50 that the “Land O’Flakes” butter was bought with public funds of some kind.
By the way the artist’s website says he’s from Iowa not Ohio.
http://www.bobklingart.com/Site/2_About_the_Artist.html
Alxandro
October 27th, 2012
Why do they keep buttering him up?
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
The real guy is slipperier than a bust of butter.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
Edith McCrotch – Land O’Flakes – LMhairyAO
Alxandro
October 27th, 2012
Q: Why are they using butter?
A: Because they ran out of Vaseline.
pissedpatriot30
October 27th, 2012
That bust is racist……. Don’t know how it is, but it is racist. So is that sculpture/artist. So there….
TCNC
October 27th, 2012
If they put this in a jar of piss, could they still call it art? Just wondering.
MAJ Mike
October 27th, 2012
I suspect that its rancid, just like the rest of the Dem-Cong.
Noelegy
October 27th, 2012
Watch out, here comes Michelle with the lobsters!
Sumdumguy
October 27th, 2012
Ive heard of a butterface, but this is not that…..
sablegsd
October 27th, 2012
My reaction is how dare he waste food on a sculpture honoring ovomit, when ther be chill’uns in da ghetto being hungree ebery monoing afore skool.
Diann
October 27th, 2012
A bust of a Heterosexual?
It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
even steven
October 27th, 2012
Breaking news: Early Saturday, Debbe Wasserman Shultz was charged with destruction of property, a misdomeaner, after scooping several handfuls of a butter sculpture of President Barack Obama and rubbing it into her hair.
woody
October 27th, 2012
Butter head?
More like Butt head.
Corona
October 27th, 2012
A tub of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter costs about $8 now thanks to this fuckhead.
Jethro
October 27th, 2012
Why did they use butter?
Margarine would have been more appropriate for this fake president….
Jerry Manderin
October 27th, 2012
Michelle just ate it raw.
Horrorman18
October 27th, 2012
Parkay!!!!
Machloja
October 28th, 2012
“For this project, they hired Ohio artist Bob Kling, known for his butter cow sculptures, to carve Obama’s face from a mound of the unsalted emulsion.”
My reaction? Stay with cows Bob. Do Michelle.
General Ripper
October 28th, 2012
The artist used butter as his medium to create the bust of Mr Obama because he knew that’s Mr Obama’s favorite anal sex-lube.