Yesterday Belgrade's Mycological Society held its annual mushroom and fungi show. Mushroom and fungi lovers from all over Serbia came to display and admire collections of commonplace and rare mushrooms. Unlike the recent Honey Show, there was no sampling allowed! Pictured above is something I had never seen before: fungi art! Not artwork made out of fungi, but art on fungi. The artist takes tree fungus, boils and dries it, preps the now hard-as-rock surface, then uses oil paint to create the religious scenes you see here. To own a piece of this very original artwork, be prepared to hand over from 50 to 120 euros. And you thought mushrooms were only for eating!Monday, October 20, 2008
Fungi art!
Yesterday Belgrade's Mycological Society held its annual mushroom and fungi show. Mushroom and fungi lovers from all over Serbia came to display and admire collections of commonplace and rare mushrooms. Unlike the recent Honey Show, there was no sampling allowed! Pictured above is something I had never seen before: fungi art! Not artwork made out of fungi, but art on fungi. The artist takes tree fungus, boils and dries it, preps the now hard-as-rock surface, then uses oil paint to create the religious scenes you see here. To own a piece of this very original artwork, be prepared to hand over from 50 to 120 euros. And you thought mushrooms were only for eating!
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