THE FRUITY SCULPTORSergio Albani Carves Celebrity Faces Into Watermelons
PHOTOS BY TOMMASO FISCALETTI
It’s summer. You look at a watermelon and your first thought is, “Ah, nature’s sugary boob.” You scramble for a knife like a madman and carve that juicy oblong spheroid into morsels of webbed goo that will coat the area in and around your mouth with refreshment.
But some people don’t think that way. Some people look at watermelons and see art. They gaze at the fruit, judge its shape and ripeness, and think, “I shall carve into this melon, and by doing so, I shall release its soul. Much like Michelangelo saw figures screaming to be let out of their prisons of marble, I shall release weird portraits of celebrities from these majestic summer fruits!”
These people are called fruit carvers and Sergio Albani is one of them. His area of expertise is not actually portraiture but floral motifs, and his favorite thing in the world is “making shrimp boats out of pineapples.” In any case, we commissioned five celebrity portraits from Sergio. Voilà. Can you guess who they are? (Hint: One of them is Doogie Howser.)
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 Anonymous, on Oct 15, 2009 wrote:
hahaha | | Anonymous, on Sep 4, 2009 wrote:
NPH would be proud | | Anonymous, on Sep 4, 2009 wrote:
fuck off with those rent a cunts on the olympus banner ad shitehawk wankery, it’s making me want to punch my computer | |
| lazy eyez killa, on Sep 3, 2009 wrote:
better fruit artists? hahaha. are you a member of the fruit artist’s guild or something? | | Anonymous, on Sep 3, 2009 wrote:
this is garbage. there are wayyybetter fruit artists than this. get better material | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2009 wrote:
his job is to carve the faces of b list celebrities into fruit? wow. good for him | | Anonymous, on Aug 28, 2009 wrote:
who cares enough about celebrities to want them on their food? people are pathetic | | Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2009 wrote:
I bet this guy does some crazy jack-o-lanterns come halloween time | | Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2009 wrote:
I wanna see his pineapple shrimp boat. I think I’d enjoy that | |
| Grant, on Aug 26, 2009 wrote:
How the fuck does some Italian fruit carver guy know who Doogie Howser is? | |
| dangerboy, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote:
this guy deserves props for his dedicaiton. i couldnt help myself for digging into that water melon. | | Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote:
this guy is way too proud of himself | |
| hi fructose, on Aug 24, 2009 wrote:
see mothers? sometimes playing with your food is a good thing. | | Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote:
the smugness is high in this guy, think he would prob be the man to have around at halloween, but only at halloween. | | Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote:
for someone who carves fruit he seems to strike me as more of a used car sales man | | Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote:
do you eat them afterwards? i wouldnt mind eating angelina. | | Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote:
these are fucking wank | |
| Taylor, on Aug 18, 2009 wrote:
Looks like he uses seedless watermelons but it would be cool if he used a seeded one for a portrait of someone with freckles. | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2009 wrote:
i hope he eats them when they start to lose their shape. can’t let a good watermelon go to waste. | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2009 wrote:
"out of all the people he could have done, he chose to do one of margaret cho? why?"
just had to clean water off my keyboard. | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2009 wrote:
out of all the people he could have done, he chose to do one of margaret cho? why? | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2009 wrote:
Sergio Albani? sounds like a gangster name... and he looks like a gangster too. Watermelon artists/ mafia king pin? | | Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2009 wrote:
all these watermelons need are a bottle of vodka in em and then we’d be set | |
| enstigator, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
this is good shit right here. up there with the pumpkin vomiting his own seeds. | | Anonymous, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
watermelonrolled | | Anonymous, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
these look like the faces of the preserved bodies in those Body Worlds exhibits. | | Anonymous, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
I thought it was Dennis Hopper too!!! | |
| darthvice, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
thats good but now try a strawberry and then ill really shit a brick | | Anonymous, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
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HOWSER!! | |
| mike d, on Aug 13, 2009 wrote:
i would never be able to do this, get half way done and have a little snack then before you know it id have eaten half a face. | | | Next 30 comments > |
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