Wim Delvoye - Studies For Cloaca (2005-2010)

Wim Delvoye

Rectapublishers

Belgian artist Wim Delvoye was born in 1965. This book presents his very earliest work, from prekindergarten through the beginnings of elementary school. Preserved by his prescient mother, they show how a young child is being directed, limited, and influenced by contemporary iconography, and offer, as well, an ironic commentary on contemporary art and the merchandising that accompanies the current art scene.

Wim Delvoye: Early Works (1968-1971)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Since 1997, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye has been inking live pigs with all manner of tattoos--from luxury goods logos to Disney princesses--and exhibiting them as his artwork. He recently moved the production end to China. This book documents the project to date.

Wim Delvoye: Art Farming

Individual Artists

This comprehensive volume reproduces in loving detail all of Delvoye's preliminary drawings for his infamous Cloaca project--in which a giant machine replicates the human digestive system by "eating" twice a day, digesting and eliminating.

Wim Delvoye: Studies for Cloaca 1997-2006

Borrowing its name from the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day, serving up a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy and disgust, high and low culture, man as machine and vice-versa, and the inversion of art semiotics. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, like the life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, the wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by such luminaries as Milan Kundera, Gerardo Mosquera, Dan Cameron, Georges Bataille and Salvador Dali.

Wim Delvoye: Cloaca - New & Improved

Roelstraete, Dieter

Dalí, Salvador

Mosquera, Gérardo

Delvoye, Wim

BATAILLE, Georges

KUNDERA, MILAN

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