Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye is a Belgian artist Plasticien born with Wervik (Flanders Occidentale) in 1965.

It was made known for its installation Cloaca (2000), said machine to excrement : with the apparent serious one of a scientific laboratory, the machine of Delvoye reproduces the process of digestion; One enters of food and, at the end of the chain, leave the excrements. Cloaca functions truly.

It would be a shame to summarize Delvoye with Cloaca : in nearly 8 years, Wim Delvoye proposed with the public works without formal bond with Cloaca but opening the door with all kinds of reflections by the juxtaposition of universe and against-employment.

Among its works

Shovels (1989): a shovel of mason painted with the weapons of some prince, telescoping two universes without large bonds such as masonry and the old Mosaic mode
(1990): ceramics squares, representing cleanliness, are decorated with reasons containing will étrons. Clean and dirty at the same time thus…
the series concrete mixers (1990): machines of building site reproduced on scale 1/1 out of decorated wood, the manner of ecclesiastical furniture
Eddy and Christophe (~1995): pigs (alive!) tattooed.
nesting boxes (1998): a series of artificial nests for birds decorated with sadomasochistic-maso accessories.
Trophy (1999): taxidermized animals are put in scene so as to gain the certain shape of humanity, such as for example a stag and a hind copulating in the position known as of the missionary .
Final (1999): medieval stained glasses which tell football games…
the series of photographs Marble floor (1999): by far they are marble grounds, but to look there closely, the elements of reason are in fact of the pieces of hams.
9 Muses (2001): series of stained glasses carried out with plates of medical imagery to x-rays them-even “X” since they are pornographic scenes (fellatio, coitus)
Early Works (1968-1971) : series of drawings of signed children Wim Delvoye . Exposed to the Mamco in 2005.

The constant mixtures dared by Delvoye register it in the tradition of a Brueghel which also confronted to him the commonplace one (excrements, food, sexuality) with the monk or the policy.

This Flemish of Belgium wants to be initially a regionalistic artist, an ethnic artist exploring presupposed of his own culture, an artist who thinks to embellish the daily life by a pleasant decoration in a country or the modernism would never be established.

External bond

Official site

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