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 bea