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|description_of_content=Eight pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton monogram logo were presented as art to the Shanghai Art Fair.
|description_of_content=Eight pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton monogram logo were presented as art to the Shanghai Art Fair.
|description_of_incident=Wim Delvoye, a 43-year-old Belgian conceptual artist used eight live pigs as his canvas to sell at a Shanghai art fair. The artist tattooed the pigs at a young age and tracked their growth as they aged. The organization felt using live animals both as a medium and as a sellable commodity was unethical, particularly because in a previous controversial art show Delvoye displayed only the skin of the pigs he had watched grow, then killing and stuffing them for the price of about £106,000.
|description_of_incident=Wim Delvoye, a 43-year-old Belgian conceptual artist used eight live pigs as his canvas to sell at a Shanghai art fair in an exhibit called "Art Farm." The artist tattooed the pigs at a young age and tracked their growth as they aged. The organization felt using live animals both as a medium and as a sellable commodity was unethical, particularly because in a previous controversial art show Delvoye displayed only the skin of the pigs he had watched grow, then killing and stuffing them for the price of about £106,000.
|description_of_result=No collaborations have since been had between the Shanghai Art fair and Wim Delvoye.
|description_of_result=No collaborations have since been had between the Shanghai Art fair and Wim Delvoye.
|source=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3382201/Tattooed-pigs-banned-from-modern-art-exhibition.html
|source=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3382201/Tattooed-pigs-banned-from-modern-art-exhibition.html
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Artist: Wim Delvoye

Year: 2008

Date of Action:

Region: Asia

Location: Shanghai

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Violence

Medium: Installation, Mixed Media, Public Art

Confronting Bodies: Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair

Description of Artwork: Eight pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton monogram logo were presented as art to the Shanghai Art Fair.

The Incident: Wim Delvoye, a 43-year-old Belgian conceptual artist used eight live pigs as his canvas to sell at a Shanghai art fair in an exhibit called "Art Farm." The artist tattooed the pigs at a young age and tracked their growth as they aged. The organization felt using live animals both as a medium and as a sellable commodity was unethical, particularly because in a previous controversial art show Delvoye displayed only the skin of the pigs he had watched grow, then killing and stuffing them for the price of about £106,000.

Results of Incident: No collaborations have since been had between the Shanghai Art fair and Wim Delvoye.

Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3382201/Tattooed-pigs-banned-from-modern-art-exhibition.html