Explore Erik Hartberg's photos on Flickr. 1/8 Wim Delvoye’s Creepy Stained Glass Windows Are Made From Recycled X-Rays. Wim Delvoye appropriates and diverts art-historical styles and motifs to sublimate trivial yet unconventional objects, and sometimes even living subjects. Stained Glass Art Stained Glass Windows Gothic Words Gothic Art Pergola Images Glass Pumpkins Historical Architecture Gothic Architecture Glass Boxes Wim Delvoye - Gothic Works This Little Piggy Little Pigs Louis Vuitton Tattoo Modern Art Contemporary Art Art Sculpture Ceramic Animals Clay Animals Giacometti Internationally celebrated for his stained-glass soccer goalie nets, monumental steel Gothic trucks and tractors and sophisticated Cloaca digestive tract machines that turn food into excrement, Belgium-born Wim Delvoye became a part-time resident of China in 2004 when he rented a farm to tattoo pigs. Delvoye’s interest in medieval art also resulted in the creation of football goals in stained glass with religious and folklore motives. He repeatedly links the attractive with the repulsive, creating work that holds within it inherent contradictions – one does not know whether to stare, be seduced, or to look away. Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervik, West Flanders) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Wim Delvoye’s X-Ray Stained Glass “Cloaca New & Improved” by Wim Delvoye (via wimdelvoye.be) Some might say Belgian neo-conceptual artist Wim Delvoye celebrates Halloween all year long. When he was not an active participant, Delvoye observed from a computer screen in another room, allowing the subjects enough distance to perform normally, although Delvoye has described the whole operation as "very medical, … Wim Delvoye then used the X-ray scans to fill gothic window frames instead of classic stained glass. Erik Hartberg has uploaded 12148 photos to Flickr.
For his “Chapel” series, Delvoye took x-rays of two friends performing sexual acts, then combined the x-rays with stained glass to fill the windows of a gothic-style chapel. Delvoye suggests that radiography reduces the body to a machine. Stained Glass Windows by Wim Delvoye. Much of his work is focused on the body.