Marble Floors

[Dave Monroe]

Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition
of Wim Delvoye’s “Marble Floor” works (1999). Known
for his exceptional transformations of images and
objects using processes typically associated with the
applied arts (i.e. wood-carving, stained glass,
tattoo), Delvoye in his “Marble Floors” has
photographed “charcuterie”-- precision cut salami,
chorizo, mortadella and ham, arranged in geometric
patterns based on Italian Baroque and Islamic motifs.
The visceral and sometimes unsettling effect this body
of work can have on a viewer is balanced by the
perfect order and rhythmic harmony of these familiar
Baroque and Islamic patterns.

Wim Delvoye was born in Belgium in 1965 and lives and
works in both Ghent and New York. The artist has
gained international recognition through his
participation in major exhibitions including the
Venice Biennale in 1990, Documenta IX in 1992 and
again, the Venice Biennale in 1999. 

This exhibition will run concurrently with “Wim
Delvoye: Cloaca,” at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, 25 January – 28 April 2002. A
publication accompanies the exhibition in which the
“Marble Floors” are illustrated.

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