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Wim Delvoye, Cloaca Feces

Working in a variety of different materials and mediums, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye has been shocking viewers for a while now with Cloaca; a machine that emulates the gastrointestinal process and produces feces, which he then markets and sells in his studio in Gent. But he also produces large scale steel sculptures, gothic works and tattoos in his pig ‘art farm.’[...]

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Petrified Petrol Pump, 2010. Fossil-filled limestone. Photo credit: Florian Kleinefenn

The recent announcement of the selection of the American-Cuban duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla to represent the United States at the 2011 Venice Biennal has generated quite an international buzz. They are young and relatively unknown with very conceptual and at times controversial proposals that bring attention to political and social unrest. Art with a conscious, so to speak.[...]

As we scour the internet we continue to find artists from the 60′s and 70′s who have made an impact or have fallen into art history oblivion. Today at DaWire we feature work from Dutch conceptual artist and filmmaker Wim T. Schippers. In 1962, Schippers had an exhibition at the Fodor Museum in Amsterdam, where he covered the floor of a room with a 100 mm layer of salt and another with a couple of tons of broken glass.[...]

This week we continue our quest to post artists of the 60′s and 70′s that have made an impact on contemporary practice. Today we turn to Douglas Huebler, one of the founders of the conceptual art movement. Although we are used to seeing conceptual art in museums and art spaces today, it was only recently (around the 90′s) that this historical mode began to be institutionally defined and revered.[...]

Recognizing the importance that conceptual art of the 60′s and 70′s still has on artistic practice today, we will be posting a series of artists that in our opinion still influence in one way or another artists today. Jan Bas Ader is one of them.[...]

The most evident influences in her work may be found in post-minimalist, ephemeral art, and land art. Her style and preferences lean to an exploration of the multiple meanings of the senses and language.[...]

Jota Castro is one of the most interesting and active artists today to propagate a political activism within his practice. In the late 1990s, Jota Castro brought his career at the United Nations and the European Union to a close and decided to devote himself totally to the field of art.[...]

Jan Dibbets was born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dibbets trained to be a painter, but turned to the photographic medium in the late 1960s. Harnessing the potential of photography to elucidate the conceptual variables of optics, his witty yet rigorous investigations of the elastic synthesis between object and space resulted in acute queries of vision and reality.[...]

After leaving Albania in 1997 and relocating to Milan to escape from the Kosovo War, visual artist Adrian Paci has exhibited in major art institutions and bienniales such as P.S.1, the Tate Modern and the Bienniale of Sevilla.[...]

Decontextualizing environments and questioning social behaviors and our perception of them is the common practice of Slovakian artist Roman Ondák. The artist, who lives and works in Bratislava, is constantly surprising viewers with works that efface the lines between reality and art to such an extent, that many of his works may pass by completely unnoticed.[...]