Wim Delvoye
dal 5/9/2014 al 30/10/2014
Segnalato da
5/9/2014
Wim Delvoye
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin - Saint-Claude, Paris
More than twenty new artworks. He explores art history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th century, from Bosch and Brueghel to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects.
Galerie Perrotin, Paris presents from September 6 to October 31, 2014, a solo show by
Wim Delvoye, gathering more than twenty new artworks.
Wim Delvoye has developed an art that offers a reinterpretation of artworks of the past
while laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art
history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th century, from Bosch and Brueghel
to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects. With a Baroque gesture
between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire
him, recreating a genuine cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer.
This exhibition introduces the use of marble, notably in the monumental sculpture
“Suppo (Karmanyaka)” (a fictive kingdom ruled by a tyrant); from the roots of a tree emerges a
great medieval-style tower spinning up heavenwards, infinite like Brancusi’s Endless Column.
In a back-and-forth shift between the sacred and the profane, Delvoye metamorphoses
tyres into architectural features from religious buildings. Some monumental works are
made into a kind of rubber lace, while other pieces are doubly twisted, turning them into
Gordian-like knots.
Aluminium suitcases chiseled with the artist’s coat of arms and Persian miniature patterns
recall nomadic low reliefs of a globalised world.
Further along can also be found works flirting with blasphemy, multiple figures of Christ on
the cross like a three-dimensional sinusoidal frieze “Double Helix Alternating Current 13cm
x 15L”, like a decorative and plant ornament; or a self-portrait of the artist as an Orthodox
Russian icon with its distinctive protective cover (oklad), here in hand embossed zinc.
Born in 1965, the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye works in varied mediums and
is perhaps best known for his “Cloaca” series which, with a seriousness
reminiscent of scientists’ laboratory experiments, sheds light on the digestive
process. In 2009, Delvoye was invited to create a monumental work for the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection during the 53rd Venice Biennale and solo shows were
held in 2010 at the Musée Rodin in Paris and in 2011 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts
in Brussels. With each of these exhibitions, he has erected an ever taller tower, a
series that reaches its pinnacle to date in 2012 with the spectacular “Suppo” a full 11
meters high under the pyramid, on the occasion of his solo show “At the
Louvre”, in the Department of Decorative Arts of the Collection of the Museum.
Wim Delvoye presents the solo exhibition “Mimicry” at The Pushkin
State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia until September 7, 2014.
On the occasion of the “Yokohama Triennale 2014 - ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into
the sea of oblivion”, the monumental sculture “Flatbed Trailer” by Wim Delvoye is
presented in front of the Yokohama Museum of Art until November 3, 2014.
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965, Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
Image: “Dunlop Geomax 100/90-19 57M 360° 3x”, 2013.
Acier inoxydable poli et patiné / Polished and patinated stainless steel
34 x 87 x 87 cm / 13 1/2 x 34 1/4 x 34 1/4 inches
©Studio Wim Delvoye, Belgique
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
Press Contacts:
Héloïse Le Carvennec, Head of Press & Communication +33 1 42169180 heloise@perrotin.com
Thomas Chabaud, Press Officer +33 1 76210711 thomaschabaud@perrotin.com
Opening reception: Saturday, September 6, 4-9pm
Galerie Perrotin
10 Impasse Saint Claude Paris
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 7pm