Wim Delvoye at the Louvre

February 7, 2010By Heidi EllisonArchive

Paris Update Art Notes

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER,
YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY

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“Kashan” (2010), by Wim Delvoye, in the apartment of Napoleon III in the Louvre. © 2012 Musée du Louvre/Olivier Ouadah © ADAGP

The exhibition “Wim Delvoye at the Louvre” draws visitors into the little-visited apartments of Napoleon III, where Delvoye’s ironic works—e.g., beautiful sculptures of polished, silver-plated bronze that would be just pastiches of classical sculpture and architecture if they weren’t twisted into new shapes, or his tattooed pigs or sculpted tires—are distributed among the ornate imperial furnishings. Through September 17. Heidi Ellison

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