歴史的に強い人だそうです21世紀でも、それだけじゃあるまい!

September 20, 2008

豚を煽てたけど、拒否られた!

will-5Wim Delvoye: Scatalogue
ウィム・デルヴォイ(Wim Delvoye)は、ベルギー人アーティストである。現在開催されている「上海アートフェア」(SHContemporary)で、彼が北京郊外の農場でタトゥーを施した8頭の生きた豚の作品が入場拒否された。
「生きた豚を持ち込むという衛生上の理由なのか、道義的理由からの中国政府による命令なのか一切は不明なまま」ということだが、下記の記事に寄れば、セキュリティガードに排除されたとある。

1頭あたりの豚の皮の値段が、下記の記事読むと1頭10万ドル(たぶん香港ドルとして120万円程度)となっているから、そうだとすると、全部で約1千万円だよ!だけと、ギャラリーは、3千ドル取り戻すっていってるから、どういうコスト計算でしょうか?しかも、豚の成長につれ、タトゥーも大きくなるから美術的な価値は増大して回収できるかも(笑)でも、死んだらどうなる?

Wim Delvoye (5)

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Shanghai Art Fair Enforces Ban on Pigs Tattooed With LV Logo

By Eugene Tang

 Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The organizers of SHContemporary, Shanghai's biggest contemporary art show, tore down an enclosure today that would have featured eight of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's tattooed pigs, after banning the exhibit at the fair.

Workers, escorted by security guards, dismantled the sty at the Shanghai Exhibition Center at 11:30 a.m., said Xin Beijing Gallery's manager Yu Tiantian, the dealer of Delvoye's work. The pigs, tattooed with Walt Disney Co. characters and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA's motif, were banned from the art fair which starts tomorrow and ends Sept. 13. Yu wouldn't say if the government had ordered the ban. Gu Zihua, spokesman for SHContemporary, declined to comment.

"It's unbelievable how aggressive they are becoming in stopping this show," Delvoye said today by phone from Shanghai. "We have collectors who've traveled to China all the way from Europe to see the pigs. They're very disappointed."

Shanghai, China's financial hub, is vying with Beijing to be the country's center for contemporary culture as it prepares to host the 2010 World Expo. The SHContemporary fair begins after ArtBeijing ends this week in the Chinese capital.

The Shanghai event, featuring 140 galleries from 25 countries, is one of five autumn art fairs in China aimed at enticing collectors to buy in a market hit by the world's worst-performing equity index this year. Price gains in works by Liu Xiaodong and other Chinese contemporary artists have slowed and auction sales have shrunk as a drop in China's equities erased $2.3 trillion in market value this year.

Delvoye bred his pigs on a farm outside Beijing, letting his tattoos grow with the animals. The animals' skins are sold for up to 75,000 euros ($104,800) a piece. A canvas, marked with Walt Disney characters, was sold to Chanel SA and made into two bags, displayed at the fashion group's Feb. 26 Mobile Art exhibition in Hong Kong, according to Delvoye's spokeswoman Xia Jie.

Xin Beijing Gallery plans to recover $2,632 in costs from SHContemporary's organizers, said Yu.       Last Updated: September 9, 2008 03:47 EDT



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