Installation view at Museum Tinguely, 2017 © 2017 ProLitteris, Zurich / Wim Delvoye Photo: Museum Tinguely, Basel / Stefan Schmidlin
The Museum Tinguely is to dedicate a major solo exhibition to the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye in the summer of 2017. In addition to his best known works, the Cloaca, which are machines that simulate human digestion and produce excrement that is visually indistinguishable from human excrement, the show will also feature pieces such as Chantier (1992), a construction site carved entirely out of wood and the huge Cement Truck (2016) in its original size. With a hefty shot of irony, wit and humour, this conceptualist provocateur often combines the decorative with the quotidian and by doing so casts doubt on consumer society’s conventional value systems.
In collaboration with MUDAM, Luxembourg.
