{"id":473305,"date":"2026-05-07T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473305\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:43:13","slug":"how-sweet-it-is-chocolate-russell-crowe-at-the-malta-pavilion-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473305\/","title":{"rendered":"How sweet it is: chocolate Russell Crowe at the Malta Pavilion &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Some people just melt when they see Russell Crowe, but a chocolate sculpture of the actor might actually turn to mush this week in the Venice heat. At the Malta Pavilion&#8217;s group exhibition No Need To Sparkle: Experiments in Love and Revolution, a 150-kg choco effigy of the star as Maximus in the blockbuster movie Gladiator\u00a0is on display. For her presentation Dolce, artist Charlie Cauchi has included the sweet statuary originally made by Tiziano Cassar for the Hamrun Chocolate Festival in 2023. Crowe initially saw the piece and loved his (sort of) likeness, saying on X: \u201cSome people get statues made of bronze. Some in marble. In Malta, they have me made out of\u2026 chocolate!!! I will be available to eat.\u201d A press statement says that Dolce \u201cexplores the complex relationship between reality and mediation, approaching Malta and its people as a palimpsest in which histories accumulate rather than disappear\u201d. Sweet stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people just melt when they see Russell Crowe, but a chocolate sculpture of the actor might actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,75543,18,117,19,17,84777,95735],"class_list":["post-473305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-malta","tag-venice-biennale-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116534300175637463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}