Wim Delvoye - Self Titled Monograph (Tehran Museum of Contemp. Art)

Published by Recta on the occasion of an exhibition of Wim Delvoye at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary ArtHardcover, 184 pagesText in English & IranianISBN: 9789082364712This title is out of print. Limit of one per person / household please.  Wim Delvoye appropriates and diverts art-historical styles and motifs to sublimate trivial yet unconventional objects, and sometimes even living subjects. His eclectic and subversive practice spans a wide range of media, including drawing, sculpture, and installation; he is perhaps best known for naturalizing tattooed pigs in China, or mechanically replicating the digestive system to produce real feces within exhibition spaces. Constantly oscillating between antagonistic realms, such as the sacred and the profane or the local and the global, he sarcastically confronts the various myths that feed our contemporary society, from religion to science and capitalism, via unexpected hybridizations. Whether twisting Rorschach inkblots into sleek bro