Sugar Mountain

Sugar Mountain by Weppler and Mahovsky is currently being exhibited on Mississauga Celebration Square, as part of Winter Magic.

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky
Bakery Case, Acrylic, LED Lights
2021

About the artwork

Sugar Mountain is a realistic, but surreal bakery case sculpture filled with cakes and pastries. Cakes are often shared at moments of celebration or to mark milestones. Playful and welcoming, their piece is also a shared experience that reflects on our current hopes and wishes for renewal. A feast for the eyes, viewers can peer through the acrylic front and back at a colourful, luscious theater of juicy berries, glistening glazes, and delicate frostings. At night, the piece transforms into a dramatic, interactive, glowing stage.

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About the artists

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, based in New York and Toronto respectively, are artists who have worked collaboratively since 2004. Their work, laborious and handmade, is concerned with material culture and our relationship to the world of things. Their practice has increasingly incorporated aspects of craft that are communal and more broadly collaborative, such as the production of DIY tutorial videos, the distribution of source files for the making of versions of their works, the hosting of virtual crafting bees, and facilitating other collaborative public projects within and without institutional settings.

For more, follow the artists on Instagram, @weppler_and_mahovsky, or visit their website www.wepplermahovsky.com.

More information

This artwork was featured during Light Up the Square on November 26, 2022, and is on display at Mississauga Celebration Square as part of Winter Magic until January 3, 2023.

Photography by Tori Lambermont.