Wim Delvoye
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[[Image:Wim Delvoye Chapelle 01.jpg|right|thumb|''chapel'', Luxembourg museum of modern art ([[Mudam]])]]
'''Wim Delvoye''' ([[Wervik]], [[1965]]) is a [[Belgian]] [[conceptual art]]ist known for a number of unconventional projects.
==Cloaca==
Cloaca is an installation that produces [[feces]].
The first Cloaca machine was exhibited at the [[MuHKA]] (Museum of Contemporary Art in [[Antwerp]]) in [[2000]].
The machine was "fed" an exquisite meal twice a day, the feces coming out at the other end of the processing unit as a result of the "digestion" of the food.
There are several Cloaca set-ups: the ''original'' setup is that of a series of containers in glass on a long table, while the more modern ones are comparatively shorter, digesting food through what looks like a series of washing machines.
The logo and other promotional art work of the Cloaca project are a parody of the logos of [[Coca-Cola]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[Mr. Clean]], and other brands. The feces produced by the Cloaca machines are sold vacuum-packed in translucent boxes.
Cloaca has its own website, [http://www.cloaca.be www.cloaca.be]
[[Image:WimDelvoyeExcavator.jpg|thumb|220px|right|A gothic excavator sculpture by Delvoye on the Belgian coast]]
==Euterpe==
Around 2001, the artist asked some of his friends to paint parts of their bodies with small amounts of [[barium]] and then have sex in actual medical clinics.
At exhibitions, the X-rays are presented as giant [[stained-glass]] church windows [http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/works/record.html?record=1477]. At a distance you admire the abstract forms, but it is only when you come closer and study it in detail that you see what it is composed of.
He used this trick before in his [[1992]] work "Mosaic". The work consists of glazed [[Tile#Floor tiles|tiles]] bearing an identical image, arranged to form symmetrical and highly ornate patterns. It is only on closer inspection that you realize that on each tile, you see 2 [[turd]]s -the artist's own excrement.
==Tattooed pigs==
Wim Delvoye has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. In the early 21st century a tattooed pigs project was set up in the Art Farm in China, where there are fewer strictures regarding animal welfare than in most parts of the Western world. In 2005 his colleague, artist Danny Devos, spent several months at the farm, reorganizing, managing and rebuilding. He is a vegetarian.
== External links ==
*[http://www.galerieperrotin.com/artiste-Wim_Delvoye-116.html Wim Delvoye] at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami & Paris
*[http://www.time.com/time/europe/generatione/mediums/delvoye.html Wim Delvoye at the Time Europe website (2003)]
*[http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/fiers/fiers1-9-01.asp ''A Human Masterpiece'' by Els Fiers] - article about Wim Delvoye on artnet.
*[http://www.newmuseum.org/more_exh_cloaca.php Cloaca exhibition in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (2002)]
*[http://www.lacan.com/frameXIX7.htm Cloaca - An Interview with Josefina Ayerza] Lacanian Ink 19
*[http://www.needled.com/blog/search/delvoye/ Wim Delvoyes tattooed pigs at Needled.com]
*[http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/artists/record.html?record=95 Wim Delvoye at Sperone Westwater]
*[http://www.kunstforum.de Interview with Fabian Stech, Der Ikonenmacher, Wim Delvoye, Kunstforum International, Number 163, 2003, p. 190]
*[http://www.wimdelvoye.be Official Website - wimdelvoye.be]
==Biography==
Fabian Stech, J'ai parlé avec Lavier, [[Annette Messager]], Sylvie Fleury, Hirschhorn, [[Pierre Huyghe]], Delvoye, D.F.-G. Hou Hanru, [[Sophie Calle]], Ming, Sans et Bourriaud. Presses du réel Dijon, 2007.
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