donderdag 25 juli 2013

Piggy

This piggy is at the open air exhibition ARTZUID 2013 in Amsterdam. He looked so sad at me in his glass box.

From aside he also had a glass belly. He is made by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen (1965), a conceptual artist who is known by his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. I don't quite understand his statement and cannot explain this project but maybe you can by reading the link to his webpage.

I rather prefer to see these ones from New Zealand at our city farm "the Kemphaan" in Almere.

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  1. It is an unusual work but a cute face. The best sculptured pigs I have seen were in Adelaide in the Rundle street mall.

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  2. I followed the website...and I am a bit confused....over my head!

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  3. He looked real in that first photo. I think there should be a package of bacon in the clear section.

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  4. If pigs could fly, he'd be out of there!

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  5. i liked that pig!! we saw it too when walking to this grandmother (on the other side is the "vetafzuig" sign... :) )
    i think his message has something to do with "clean eating", everything nowadays is modified etc... but im not sure..

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    1. (i mean when walking to tims grandmother!)

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    2. Ha, ha, hadn't noticed that, but understand you didn't walk with a pig...

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  6. Dearest Marianne,
    Don't like that very sad face either... We cannot be blamed for eating them as we rarely do! More and more vegetarian, also for health reasons.
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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  7. This one leaves me cold, but it did make me think.

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  8. Ik ben al blij dat ze geen echt varken hebben gebruikt.

    Groetjes,
    Filip

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  9. I'm not sure about this one. Much prefer the real ones in your last photo.

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  10. Die echte varkens komen helemaal uit Nieuw Zeeland?

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    1. Ik weet niet of ze hier gefokt zijn, maar het is in ieder geval een ras uit Nieuw Zeeland.

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  11. Ja ik ga ook voor de echte. Die varkens komen van hier. Ik zal een kijken als ik langs een varkens boer kom.

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  12. Look at that sad face - probably thinking about whose table he will end up on?? Not sure about the project, but will check out link to see if I can figure this one out. See Ya buddy :)

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  13. That's certainly an interesting pig sculpture - can't say I could get much of an explaination out of Mr Vanmechelen's website about it. The other link suggests you've got all sorts of interesting sculptures about the city for a few months.

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