Lucy's Delicatessen: the gourmet store you won't want to leave
Artist **Lucy Sparrow, aka the Queen of Felt (or @sewyoursoul),** is able to craft the soft, squishy version of anything thrown in front of her.
Sparrow has participated in many exhibitions around the world, showing her original and colorful creations, often topped off with googly eyes and smiles.
However, if we stop and look just beyond the happy little faces, we see allusions to the consumerist universe, mental health or the political landscape –look at the googly-eyed Prozac or the stuffed guns with the slogan 'Love is a warm gun'–.
The last installation of her, Lucy's Delicatessen , just opened at the **Rockefeller Center in New York ** and we want to take it home ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
Don't miss the gourmet seafood section
A GOURMET SPACE VERY BUT VERY SOFT
Lucy Sparrow's Delicatessen on 6th is the sixth installation in the British artist's series of felt shops. Located on the corner of 49th Street and 6th Avenue, the space represents a gourmet shop where we find all kinds of products - Be careful, don't try to sink your teeth into them, although you won't hurt yourself in the attempt either.
Fresh fish, seafood, French cheeses, chocolate, fruit, vegetables... All of them handmade in felt and available to buy.
The facility is part of Rockefeller Center's Art in Focus arts program, Presented in association with the non-profit organization Art Production Fund , which hosts exhibitions by contemporary artists inspired by New York City landscape and everyday life
Lucy Sparrow, the felt artist
In addition to her particular delicatessen corner, Lucy Sparrow will exhibit some works in various unexpected corners of Rockefeller Center.
So we can see aquariums and terrariums, made with materials such as felt, lycra, diamonds, sequins and glass beads.
Imagine a small tomato smiling at you from her position with its little eyes or a tray full of squishy, squeezable pieces of sushi.
All very cute, yes. But behind those little eyes hides the background of all this: that we reflect on our relationship with consumption.
They are not edible, but sooo soft
THE ARTIST THE FELT
Bath native Lucy Sparrow's love affair with felt began six years ago when she participated in the Victoria and Albert Museum's traveling street art exhibition alongside artists like Banksy, Blek le Rat, Jamie Hewlett, Pure Evil, D*Face, and Oh Jiwon.
One of her first individual exhibitions was Imitation, at Hoxton Gallery , in which she recreated artwork by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, among others, with felt.
Lucy's Delicatessen will be at Rockefeller Center until October 20
In September 2014 opened in London's East End The Cornershop, a supermarket in which everything was made of felt, from fruits and vegetables to soft drinks, including cleaning products and even the cash register!
Since then, the British artist has opened many more spaces of this type, such as the Madame Roxy's Erotic Emporium , in London's Soho; The Convenience Store, in Manhattan; either Sparrow Mart in Los Angeles.
Who can resist a smiling avocado?
In 2016, Sparrow recreated the Crown Jewels in felt, to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday, a work that was presented in the window of the flagshio store of Hermés in Beverly Hills.
She was also very famous for her participation in Miami Art Week with the installation Triple Art Bypass , in which the artist performed a live "surgery" at Context Art Fair.
One of squid?
ART IN FOCUS
The artist joanna avillez she kicked off the Art in Focus series with her Rockefeller Center Holiday Map in December 2018, followed by Bravinf the Cold by hein koh , Pink Projects by Portia Munson and Plaster Wall Reliefs from Lakela Brown.
Lucy Sparrow's Delicatessen can be visited until October 20, 2019, every day of the week, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The entrance is free and the items are around 40 dollars.
For the most carnivorous