Rorschach, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s third solo show at Galerie Perrotin, opened in Paris on May 12, 2012. The show highlights the détournement and beautification of everyday objects and religious icons. Wim Delvoye’s work is provocative and at times unsettling. He has used live animals, sacred forms and banal objects within a controversial artistic process that aims at forcing the viewer to reconsider what is aesthetically pleasing and what is morally aceptable. In his solo exhbitiion at Galerie Perrotin, Delovoye appropriates the archecture of Gothic Cathedrals and the forms of religious sculptures, producing intricate manipulations of these well known forms. The show runs until June 16, 2012.
Wim Delvoye: Rorschach / Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Opening reception, May 12, 2012. Video by Daniel Barney.
There are many highlights to be seen at this year’s Art Cologne, 44. Internationaler Kunstmarkt in Cologne, Germany. Galerie Thomas for example shows a large painting by Joan Mitchell and an orange colored sculpture by Wim Delvoye; and Galerie Karsten Greve focuses on works by Louise Bourgeois.
Art Cologne 2010 Highlights, part 1. Cologne / Germany, April 20, 2010. Interviews: Bettina Krogemann.
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Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervick / Belgium) became widely known on the occasion of the documenta 9 in Kassel / Germany in 1992 with a large “mosaic” of white ceramic tiles decorated with beautifully-arranged scrolls of excrement. WPS1 Art Radio host Althea Viafora Kress and Wim Delvoye discuss the artist’s work at the Armory Show 2007. Part 2/2.
Interview also available as audio file at WPS1 Art Radio.
See also the video “Wim Delvoye: Bronzes / de Pury & Luxembourg”.
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