Eat Me, Drink Me

Artist Renato Niemis (London, England, born 1958)

Date1993

Mediumwood and card models on 2 wooden plinths with perspex cover

ClassificationsSculptures

DimensionsOverall: Height: 93 cm, Width: 30.5 cm, Depth: 39.5 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2000 by the Saatchi Collection through the National Art Collections Fund.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG013859

Keywords

About MeRenato Niemis trained at Chelsea College of Art and Design. These two white boxes are maquettes for a full size installation shown at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1993 in an exhibition of the annual Barclay's Young Artist award. In this work two boxes - one unlit, one lit - serve to suggest room spaces. Niemis explores views of reality and the relationship between art and technology, building 'rooms' which are designed to 'recall the anonymity of public spaces'.

Niemis is perhaps best known for his vast glass sculpture entitled 'Counting the Cost' commissioned for the hanger-like American Air Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge, which was designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 1997.