Oink n’ Ink
Edited by Kirby Marzec
I would do a TrendSpark on taxidermy, but I want to avoid instilling disgusting ideas in the minds of all those label obsessed sickos out there. Back in September, we announced that pigs tattooed with the Louis Vuitton “LV” symbol were banned from the “Art Farm” exhibit at China’s Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair. The eight pigs, inked by Wim Delvoye, a Belgian conceptual artist, were tattooed as piglets and grew as cud-eating, mud-rolling canvases. Well, what we didn’t tell you is that the eight pigs were later killed, stuffed and sold £106,000. Ok, so we are resorting to dead pigs as art these days…whatever happened to Monet replicas above the fireplace!?
To make matters oh, so much worse, Delvoye has even gone as far as preserving the tattoos of humans. Delvoye recently sold a tattoo on the back of a Swiss man which depicts the Virgin Mary with a lifeless skull for a record €150,000. A hunk of old dead guy skin on the wall…this isn’t exactly what I have in mind when I think of redecoration!
Delvoye defends his art by providing the pigs with plenty of food and “better living conditions than millions of poor Chinese.” Excellent. I’m glad to see where our priorities lie these days. According to Delvoye, the difference between the pigs and the peeps is that ”the pigs never had an opinion.” Well, you know what my opinion is? You, Mr. Delvoye need to see a shrink. Pronto.