The bible foretold of his return, and now Jesus is back. Chocolate Jesus, that is."My Sweet Lord" is an anatomically correct milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ returning to a Chelsea art gallery at this month's end.
Artist Cosimo Cavallaro said he expects the public exhibit to proceed this time without a problem.
"There is nothing offensive about this," Cavallaro said of his controversial confectionery work. "If my intentions were to offend, if I did do something wrong, I wouldn't be doing this. But I didn't do anything wrong." It is a little known rule, but anything done in chocolate is automatically acceptable -- way to know your obscure legalities!
The last show was criticized for its timing and its location. The exhibit, in a gallery visible to passers-by on a Manhattan street, was set to open one day after Palm Sunday and four days before Christians marked the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday.
The new exhibit will be accompanied by a set of chocolate Catholic icons also created by Cavallaro, including the Virgin Mary and saints Francis, Augustine, Michael, Jude, Anthony and Fermin. The Jesus sculpture is also a new version, created with 200 pounds of chocolate over three days. The original was stored in a Brooklyn facility where mice nibbled away at its hands, ears, nose and feet, forcing Cavallaro to toss the original and recast the sculpture.
Rather than work the Christian canon, I hope that Cavallaro moves onto other religions. Who wouldn't like a green tea mint chocolate Buddha, or a white chocolate Vishnu? Maybe he can also do some whacked out cults too. Xenu would be delicious and those Heaven's Gate guys would have light and dark chocolate stripes on their track suits.
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"After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism." George W Bush, 2006
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