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"Made in Belgium :: Art and Artists"
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"Wim Delvoye, Belgian artist : Biography and Books"
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Wim Delvoye was born in 1965. His work has been shown internationally, including at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Moscow Art Fair, and the 2000 Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Ghent.
Named for 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 as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, including a life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, a 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.
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