Essays by Georges Bataille, Dan Cameron, Salvador Dalí, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Gerardo Mosquera, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Bexte.
Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 143 color. | 2/2/2002 | Not available $35.00
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited with text by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Aude Fauvel. Text by Thomas Mondémé.
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s (born 1965) conceptual, often shocking installations and sculptures question the boundaries between art and everyday life. This volume accompanies an exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève (MAH) in which Delvoye was given carte blanche to juxtapose his own works with the museum’s holdings.
Since 1997, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye has been inking live pigs with all manner of tattoos--from luxury goods logos to Disney princesses--and exhibiting them as his artwork. He recently moved the production end to China. This book documents the project to date.
PUBLISHER Rectapublishers
BOOK FORMAT Hardback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 208 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/1/2008 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 133
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789080721739TRADE List Price: $65.00 CAD $87.00
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This comprehensive volume reproduces in loving detail all of Delvoye's preliminary drawings for his infamous Cloaca project--in which a giant machine replicates the human digestive system by "eating" twice a day, digesting and eliminating.
PUBLISHER Rectapublishers
BOOK FORMAT Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 288 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/1/2008 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 133
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789080721746TRADE List Price: $65.00 CAD $75.00
Published by Rectapublishers. Artwork by Wim Delvoye.
Belgian artist Wim Delvoye was born in 1965. This book presents his very earliest work, from prekindergarten through the beginnings of elementary school. Preserved by his prescient mother, they show how a young child is being directed, limited, and influenced by contemporary iconography, and offer, as well, an ironic commentary on contemporary art and the merchandising that accompanies the current art scene.
PUBLISHER Rectapublishers
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / 264 color / illustrated throughout
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 4/2/2003 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789080721715SDNR30 List Price: $40.00 CAD $50.00
Published by Merz. Essays by Peter Bexte and Pierre Sterckx. Foreword by Thierry Prat. Introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin.
Scatalogue, a combination of catalogue and scatology--scatology being the study of fecal excrement and an obsession with excretory functions--is a fitting title for a publication devoted to Wim Delvoye's latest work. A smelly hit in its new and improved version at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York this past year, and an equally natural sensation in Antwerp, Dusseldorf, Lyon, Milan, and Pori, Finland, Cloaca, Delvoye's perfect shit making machine, constitutes a major shift in the artist's oeuvre. Scatalogue also features art works from the rest of Delvoye's world, including shovels, gas cans, concrete mixers, and caterpillars, as well as X-rays and stained glass.
Published by Rectapublishers. Essays by Georges Bataille, Dan Cameron, Salvador Dalí, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Gerardo Mosquera, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk and Peter Bexte.
Borrowing its name from 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, serving up a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy and disgust, high and low culture, man as machine and vice-versa, and the inversion of art semiotics. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, like the life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, the 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.
PUBLISHER Rectapublishers
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 143 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/2/2002 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2002
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789090153872TRADE List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00
Perpetrator, prankster, unlicensed scatologist--Wim Delvoye wears many hats in this book documenting his exposure of certain hidden--often orifice-related--aspects of our existence. In his new monograph, this Belgian post-Pop artist continues to create works that transcend traditional categorical distinctions--when it comes to Delvoye, we speak not of painting or sculpture but of semiotic installations. His works Windroos, Xrub'se, and Concrete Mixer S.P. II--all documented here--debunk centuries of Western anal retentiveness in one fell poop. The remarkable list of authors whose texts contribute to this volume--including such luminaries as Georges Perec, Piero Camporesi, Raymond Roussel, Milan Kundera, John Berger, and Georges Bataille--testifies to the deep theoretical, literary, and of course artistic resonance of his work. Delvoye's work evidences a supreme humorous and creative intelligence rarely seen in today's art world--his work never fails to enlighten and entertain with its irreverence and style.
PUBLISHER Ludion
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 10.5 x 8.75 in. / 136 pgs / 100 color
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/2/2000 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2001
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789055443017TRADE List Price: $39.50 CAD $45.00
Wim Delvoye: Art Farming
Wim Delvoye: Studies for Cloaca 1997-2006
Wim Delvoye: Scatalogue
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca - New & Improved
