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4to. 224 pp. Near Fine. Hard Cover. Patterned black boards. Color plates throughout. Text in English and French. Scarce. Heavy volume, additional shipping fees may apply. ISBN: 9782757210932 2757210939. Since the beginning of his career in the late 1980s, Wim Delvoye has sought to shift the boundaries that traditionally separate popular culture and art, decorative arts and the "fine arts", the old and the contemporary, the noble and the unclean. "Basically, Wim Delvoye makes oxymorons, " writes Michel Onfray: his works indeed appear to be shot through with various contrary elements, suspended somewhere between seduction and dissonance. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Mudam Luxembourg invites the Belgian artist, who marked the opening of the museum with the creation of his Chapel, to occupy its spaces. Spread over two floors, the exhibition will present a wide panorama of his twenty-five years of artistic production, reflecting the formal variety as well as the conceptual coherence of his work. It also bears witness to the special relationship Delvoye maintains with Luxembourg: the Beaumont Gallery devoted a solo exhibition to him in 1994; at the same time, his works appeared in public and private collections in Luxembourg, starting with the Musée national d'histoire et d'art (MNHA) and the Grand-Ducal Court; he then participated in several group exhibitions organized by Casino Luxembourg which, in 2007, in collaboration with Mudam, also presented for the first time all of his ambitious Cloaca project. Undermining the retrospective format, Delvoye invites us to stroll through his singular work via four spaces with contrasting universes. On the ground floor, the first gallery brings together several key works from his early career directly inspired by the decorative arts of his native Flanders, concentrating on domestic and urban spaces, while the second gallery is oriented around the concept of "origins": the prosaic ones, common to every human being, but also those of art and his own practice. Upstairs, the third gallery addresses the issue of ornament and the appropriation of forms borrowed from art history, while the last space, conceived as a landscape, hosts "monuments" erected in homage to everyday life, including his recent large Gothic-inspired sculptures. Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works in Ghent.
