Fred Allard turns Coke & Chanel into collaborating art at Eden Fine Art

Courtesy: Daniel Quintanilla

The Sophisticated Soda

Tonight, coming into the lower part of Manhattan, you find that West Houston, Bowery, and Watts are the greatest places to be, with its coolness, its New York Fashion Week reputation, its destitute, and a different kind of people, one thing you also found too is fine art taken to a whole new level, where even the population at large are allowed to take notice, it’s Fred Allard and his sculpture of Chanel and Coca Cola infused as one where their infamous brands merge with each other, and borrow one another’s packaging to illustrate something special here at Eden Fine Art.

In a gathering filled with love, pretty people, fries, tiny pizzas, dessert, and lots of champagne, we find ourselves marveling at a Chanel perfume bottle rebranded as Coca-Cola with its iconic logo, and its legendary bottles most importantly, not forgetting the origins of where Coca-Cola came from.

There’s also a vice-versa affect as Chanel takes shape in the space that Coca-Cola would normally make itself at home, it’s in a simple soda can enlarged to elaborate how we all can borrow each other’s identity not only to embody fine art, but to feel what it’s like to be yourself in another’s sound, body, visual, and makeup, enjoying the contrast when soda finds itself in a perfume bottle, and when perfume finds itself poured into a soda can.

Where the Eden Fine Art Gallery proudly presents itself as the world’s largest pop art dealer, Fred Allard with its sculpture of Coca-Cola and Chanel in each other’s bodies fits right in the mold of being fine art while touching the population at large.

Daniel Quintanilla