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14/2/2008

Wim Delvoye

Ernst Museum, Budapest

Ernst Museuem Budapest is pleased to present the solo show of Wim Delvoye open until March 23.
Curator: Kati Simon, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest

Whether you love it or hate it, you will have an opinion: Wim Delvoye, enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, makes art that will not go unnoticed. These provocative works, which make emphatic use of antagonisms, flout conventions and dogmas. His raw honesty and grotesque humour will make you laugh and wonder at the same time.

It is impossible not to notice a kinship with earlier Belgian art. His works resonate with Ensor’s scatological/obscene humour, Magritte’s austere absurdism, Broodthaers’ interest in the unspoken rules of the world of art. Delvoye’s art is a celebration of paradox, based as it is on the Belgian surrealist tradition, the practice of conjoining two different elements/ideas in the same work. The gas cylinders painted in the style of Delft porcelain; the teak wood concrete mixer with baroque ornamentation; painted glass windows with sex scenes; excavators in the style of gothic cathedrals: they all reference, in their peculiar manner, the history of art.

His creative methods extend from the simple drawing to real tattoos, from stuffed animals to bronze casts, from installation to live pigs, from lipstick marks to X-ray photos. If his works are often heavy, massive, they are always vibrant with playful ideas and an ironic overtone.

Beside the pigs tattooed with elaborately detailed Harley-Davidson and Walt Disney motifs, his probably best-known work is Cloaca (2000-2007), which he has prepared in eight versions. The large installation is a complex device that models human digestion. It has a mouth, a stomach, a duodenum and a pancreas, containers with enzymes, and a belt conveyor, which produces, when regularly fed, the end result,
i.e. excrement.

Born in 1965, Wim Delvoye lives and works in Gent. He earned international recognition with such high-profile exhibitions as the Venice Biennale in 1990 and 1999, and the Documenta 9 in 1992. Presented in Ernst Museum, the exhibition offers an overview of the Flemish artist’s work to date, where beside the tattooed pigs and the Gothic concrete mixer truck, an original, working Cloaca is expected to invite considerable media attention.

The exhibition was initiated by art historian Barnabás Bencsik.

The exhibition was made possible with the precious help of the Studio Wim Delvoye in Ghent
(info@cloaca.be).

Special sponsor of the exhibition, caterer of Cloaca is: Két Szerecsen Cafe and Bistro in Budapest
(http://www.ketszerecsen.com).

Supporters: Embassy of Belgium – Flemish Representation, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Flemish Authorities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, Service Centre for International Cultural Activities / SICA, Hungarofest, Ministry of Education and Culture of Hungary, Két Szerecsen Cafe and Bistro

Media sponsors: Art-magazin, Színes RTV

For further information please contact: Reka Csejdy at rcsejdy@mucsarnok.hu


LOW, the Dutch-Flemish Cultural Festival, Budapest 2008

The LOW Festival brings a variety of Dutch and Flemish contemporary arts, performing arts, fine arts, classic, jazz and pop music, design, theatre, and films to Hungary for a month in February and March 2008. The name of the festival alludes to the Low Countries, the region encompassing the Netherlands and Flanders.

The basic aim of the festival is to introduce contemporary Dutch/Flemish culture to the Hungarian public, and to enhance, support and deepen artistic cooperation between the Netherlands, Flanders and Hungary.

The conceptual and transactional work of the festival is organized by the Dutch Embassy along with the Flemish Representation in Budapest. There will be an information centre during the whole festival in the Merlin.

Festival events take place at over 20 locations in Budapest and include approximately 500 performers and 100 performances. The exhibitions and performances will be held from the 15th of February until the 12th of March.

AGENCY38 Cultural Communication Agency
Viktória Hámori hamori.viktoria@agency38.hu +36 (20) 944 0023



Opening Wim Delvoye exhibition
15 February, 2008, 6 p.m. Ernst Museum

Grand Opening
15 February, 2008, 7.30 p.m. Kunsthalle

Ernst Museum
Nagymezo u. 8. H-1065 Budapest

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