PERSISTING
I sometimes try to give artists a second chance. Especially living ones. It’s not easy as installations and work which just
doesn’t say anything to me leaves me quite perplexe and as friends say, snarly ! Wim Delvoye’s work is strange and sometimes quite funny. When I was looking at the listing of his exhibitions, I was surprised that he recently gave one in the MOMA in Tasmania. He seems to have been all over the world.
He reinterprets artworks of the past whilst giving an amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history although when there are references to Bosch, Brueghel or even Warhol, I am a little if not quite lost. One of his pigs which is mentioned in the chapter «Reassuring and Otherwise» is very well known. When I saw this image as the front page of an art magazine, I burst out laughing. There was the exhibition I had just seen in Grenoble alone with Wim and his pig.
Wim is from Belgium and 47. The exhibition I saw today was in the Gallery Perrotin. A beautiful space which gives onto a small garden. The exhibition is called Rorschach. This is a comic character or the analysis of what people see in ink spots. There is a test called the Rorschach test concerning the perception of ink blots. Fun to do but I’d hate to know what the outcome was - for me !
Here are some of the examples of his sculptures. I find them fascinating.
There is to be another exhibition of his at the Louvre. That I will definitely be going to see. I really enjoy the relationship between the «old and the new» and sometimes see the «old» much better.
doesn’t say anything to me leaves me quite perplexe and as friends say, snarly ! Wim Delvoye’s work is strange and sometimes quite funny. When I was looking at the listing of his exhibitions, I was surprised that he recently gave one in the MOMA in Tasmania. He seems to have been all over the world. He reinterprets artworks of the past whilst giving an amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history although when there are references to Bosch, Brueghel or even Warhol, I am a little if not quite lost. One of his pigs which is mentioned in the chapter «Reassuring and Otherwise» is very well known. When I saw this image as the front page of an art magazine, I burst out laughing. There was the exhibition I had just seen in Grenoble alone with Wim and his pig.
Wim is from Belgium and 47. The exhibition I saw today was in the Gallery Perrotin. A beautiful space which gives onto a small garden. The exhibition is called Rorschach. This is a comic character or the analysis of what people see in ink spots. There is a test called the Rorschach test concerning the perception of ink blots. Fun to do but I’d hate to know what the outcome was - for me !
Here are some of the examples of his sculptures. I find them fascinating.
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| View of Roschach |
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| Ring Corpus outside 2011 |
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| Twisted dump truck |
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| Suppo 2012 |
There is to be another exhibition of his at the Louvre. That I will definitely be going to see. I really enjoy the relationship between the «old and the new» and sometimes see the «old» much better.
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