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Special Cocktail
Averna Amaro Royal with,Cremant de Saumur Brut, Loir, FR ‘10
First Course
Wild Mushroom Paté with Pistachio Puree paired with Papillon, Sans soufe ajoute, Vin de Table, le Baux de Provence, FR, ’10, Winemaker Henri Milan.
Second Course
Morel and Fennel Salad paired with Sartarelli, Tralivio Verdicchio Classico, VenetoIT ‘04
Third Course
Smoked Wild Mushroom Goulash with Chive Dumplingspaired with La Glou, La Ferme des Sept Lunes, Saint Joseph, Rhone, FR ’10, %100 Syrah, Winemaker: Jean Delobre, organic and biodynamic
Fourth Course
Layered Black Truffle and Sea Scallop in Puff Pastry paired with Quattro Mani ‘07, Exto Gredic, Dobrovo, Brda,Slovenia, Aleš Kristancic, 100% Tocai
Dessert
Candy Cap Mushroom Madeleine with Truffle Honey Sour Cream sprinkled with Averna Amaro, paired with Averna Amora Sicily
Special support for this project is provided by Von Fine Wine & Imports, and Domain Select.
The Mily Way - Get Your Orgone On is a project Puntar has been
exploring since 2009 by combining seemingly disparate elements, the
Orgone Accumulator, the disco floor and the mushroom garden, each
a conduit between reality and fantasy that offer the opportunity to loose
oneself in the hallucinatory reverie brought on by utopian dreams,
pulsing lights and the promise of supernatural phenomena.
photo credit Whitney Browne 
Diana Puntar
“From discreet sculptural works to full-scale
modular installations, my work examines various frontiers
from the living room to outer space. The Milky Way - Get Your Orgone
On - ”Eat It” focuses on my ongoing exploration and attraction to
mushrooms. From their often erotic suggestive appearances and
intersexual genetics to their stunningly complex immune systems that
may hold the cure to countless human illnesses and enviornemental
toxins - mushrooms live up to their magical mythology.
Previous work envisioned a world of post-apocalyptic human interaction
with design, erasing the boundaries between the manufactured and the
natural. But after a series of global catastrophes from wars to the great
recession and personal challenges I felt the need to re-examine my
relationship to the present and concluded that the apocalypse is now!
I had to take a step back.
Tapping into my original impetus to be an artist and the belief that art can,
perhaps gradually, transform the world; I searched for moments of utopia
both current and past of extreme human upheaval. Elements of Wilhelm
Reich’s post WWII Orgone inventions; Gerit Rietvelds post WWII
furniture designs, the discos of the 1970s and 80s and current medical
research into mushroom immunology are combined into my current series
of sculptures, installations, and events “The Milky Way.. Get Your Orgone
On”.
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UNTITLED. Art Fair Miami
Dec. 3-9, 2012
Presenting the work of Alvin Baltrop. Installation shot.