威姆•德沃伊（Wim Delvoye）的最新作品哥特塔Torre
从6月3日至11月22日，Peggy Guggenheim系列作向人们展示了比利时艺术家威姆•德沃伊（Wim Delvoye）的最新作品Torre：一个带有尖拱型窗户和角楼的不锈钢哥特塔，矗立于Palazzo Venier dei Leoni宫殿的露台，静静的面对着大运河。
既是建筑又是装饰品的哥特塔，它在向人们展示飘渺的皇权的同时又体现了物质强有力的存在。巴黎圣母院，纽约圣约翰教堂等哥特式建筑都是它的灵感来源。艺术家运用最新电脑技术的将卡斯帕•大卫•弗里德里希（Caspar David Friedrich）和卡尔•弗里德里•辛克尔（Karl Friedrich Schinkel）的浪漫主义画作与塔相结合。
德沃伊的艺术行为让人们注意到双重性的魅力：圣神和渎神，过往和现今，装饰性对实用性的胜利。德沃伊的作品在矛盾中生长繁荣，而将哥特塔安置于古典主义的宫殿中，这本身就创造出一种强烈的矛盾。
威姆•德沃伊出生于1965年，在布鲁塞尔附近的根特生活和工作。他因参加1990年及1999年的威尼斯双年展和1992年第四届文件展而逐渐出名。他08年在布达佩斯Ernst博物馆，卡尔加里Glenbow博物馆，不莱梅以及波尔多举办了展览。
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Arriving at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: A Gothic Tower by Artist Wim Delvoye
VENICE.- From June 3 to November 22, 2009 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s latest creation Torre: a stainless steel Gothic tower constructed, with its ogival windows and its turrets, to rise over the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal.
Both architecture and ornament, Torre by Delvoye demonstrates not only ethereal majesty and vision but forceful material presence, drawing inspiration from masterpieces of Gothic architecture such as Notre Dame, Paris, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York. From a fusion of the sublime with the most advanced capabilities of computer technology, the Gothic style of the Tower unites it with the Romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Wim Delvoye’s artistic practice draws on the notion of the attraction of binary opposites: the sacred and the profane, the past and the present, the triumph of ornamentation over functionality. His art thrives on such paradoxes, that also form the basis of Surrealist artistic practice, combining these components of difference, not always manifest but ever present in his aesthetic. The placement of a Gothic tower in the vicinity of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni’s classicism creates just such a forceful and provocative paradox.
For Wim Delvoye: “While the Renaissance was a world view, the Gothic was a state of mind. The Renaissance was finite epoch lasting half a century before being succeeded by Mannerism. Gothic was an art outside of time. The human eye takes in detail like a stroboscope; glancing over lights and tracery, crockets and finials, it thrills to the joy of the tower’s soaring ascent.
Born in 1965, Wim Delvoye lives and works in Ghent. He earned international recognition with his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1990 and 1999 and Documenta IX in 1992. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at the Ernst Museum Budapest (February-March 2008), a presentation of one of his Cloaca machines at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary (June-August 2008) and participation in exhibitions at MARTa in Herford (April-June 2008), Weserburg in Bremen (May 2008) and CAPC Bordeaux (June-September 2008).
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