Thursday, April 28, 2011

Borderline Art Sadism: Tattooed Pigs


Wim Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist gaining some notoriety with the style of his art. One such project he has gotten a lot of attention over is his project on a Pig Farm in China. He tattooed death pigs as well as sedating breathing pigs too so he could dye their skin; for this artistic venture he traveled to China to avoid accusations of animal cruelty although he claims to be a vegetarian.



He has inked sculls, crosses, Louis Vuitton designs and designs connected to a pig's anatomical make-up. He has described the process of tattooing a live pig: "we sedate it, shave it and apply Vaseline to its skin." The official site of this artist, which bares more than a passing resemblance to the aesthetics of  the computer game The Sims when you enter it is http://www.wimdelvoye.be/ .


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