Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Tire Art of Wim Delvoye

For his series titled "Pneu", Belgian artist Wim Delvoye created a series of decorative objects by hand-carving intricate patterns and floral motifs on used car tires. Through his manipulation of found objects, Delvoye transforms things that seem useful in everyday life into sculptural pieces that carry a different value from their original intended purpose. Delvoye calls his own approach to art ‘glocal’, referring to ‘local’ and ‘global’, which is his own ironical way of describing art.

 Find out more about Wim's work here.
Posted by Junkculture at 9:37 AM
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    1. You're amazing and original Tracy Sherwood!

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    2. that's creepy

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  3. Such intricate work! Just beautiful!

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  5. Amazing work! But what is the website you linked to? I clicked on the Windmill and it brought up very disturbing photos of people tattooing pigs.

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    1. You know that's the same guy that did this work right?

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  6. That's just amazing! Very very beautiful!

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  8. As beautiful as this art is, I also found the people tattooing live pigs to be rather repulsive. I'm all for using animal parts, but why is it necessary to inflict more pain upon them while they are alive?

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  10. Holy smokes! Never knew tires could be beautiful until now. Awesome work.

    cojo
    cojospace.etsy.com

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  11. Absolutely amazing what can be done with materials that we think have come to the end of their lives....they continue to live on..long live recycling materials for artwork!

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  12. Absolutely amazing! I can't imagine trying to carve such intricate detail in to such hard, unforgiving rubber. What a talented artist! Bravo :)


    www.LuckyLadyApparel.Etsy.com

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  13. your a busty artist indeed, nice work on them tires

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  15. :O Love it!!! So so cool, great way to combine recicling & art. Amazing!

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  16. eh someone did this with metal. still a lot of work but.. eh

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  17. These are brand new, not recycled. Wonder about the lack of interwoven metal in the rubber too. Pretty.

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  18. Crazy amaizing !
    What about a making off video?
    I like those tires i want 4 of those for my car :)

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  19. Woah! This is amazing! Who knew tyres could look so good :)

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  20. well as always an interesting work from wim delvoye, but it were more honest to say he didn't made anything by himself, he's just thinking at the "conceptual" part of the art, and pay somebody to do it.

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  22. Hmmm... reminds me of Cal Lane's art of turning oil drums and old car parts into lace: http://www.callane.com/works.html#

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  23. where can i order a pair? Snow tires w/studs

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  24. This seriously blows my mind. I spent a collective 13 hours carving an oval medallion out of tire once. It was beyond difficult. I cut my hand many times over exerting myself to cut the rubber. I'm not sure what he used to carve, but this guy has a lot of my respect.

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  25. I PROPABLY HAVE SOMEONE COME IN ON A SATURDAY MORNING WANTING ONE ADJUSTED OR COMPLAINING ABOUT A TIRE LIGHT BEING ON. SORRY OLD TIRES!

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  26. what tattooed pigs are pretty cool, you should meet my husband!

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  27. Woooow! ...or..in italian...'STI CAZZI!! :)

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  29. Clever and beautifully done...still a tire though.

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  30. LAME..just kiddding thats dope

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  32. Damn... if I could only roll on those dubs.... blinged out! :) Great stuff

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  33. nice...cool...wonderfull nice art work design...
    How use to Photoshop

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  34. Wim Delvoye also created a pooping machine once.
    A true artist indeed. -.-'

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  35. Such a copycat fail.... Betsabeé Romero did that a looooong looong time ago.

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  36. I would kill to have my tires look like this .

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  38. this goes to show how we think so hard to find something great to make a name with, we see something so simple and say "why didn't I think off that?!?!"

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  39. Very unusual art. but is art.

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  41. this is genius….kudos for the new perspective toward something so everyday…. art is beautiful!

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  43. I just wrote a post referring to your amazing site and this specific post! It will post tomorrow. It's so amazing, and I love anything that can turn trash into beautiful art!

    MODERN SOUTHERNER

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  45. This is sad because if you look at the tread, these are not used tires, they are brand new. This is not an example of reusing something to make art. This is an example of giving money to big oil and getting a pay off because you're "original." Look at the garbage art of Haiti and you will see that this man is a fake and a plagiarist.

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  46. took me a minute to work out why i was looking at tires, but ive gotta say- pretty impressive work there. and who says art is no longer original?

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  47. I am seeing all sorts of different art forms from things that would be considered junk. I love this work here.

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  48. This looks just like Betsabeé Romero's work!! http://bit.ly/qeuAfa Who Copied Who?

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  49. there is just so much beauty in the woeld it makes me want to cry with joy!

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  50. I wonder if the artist got TIREd after making all of these??

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  51. Tire art? Who knew! This is fabulous!

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  52. Who knew a tire could look so good! Creative choice of medium,fabulous job.

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  53. Interesting medium...
    What do you make the holes with a powerful water jet cutter or light laser?

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  54. How do they handle in snow??

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  55. That's like the work of Betsabeé Romero´s:

    http://arte-mexico.com/betsabee/catalogo/catalogo.html

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  57. Dentelle à mon avis.
    J'attends les messages...
    Guacolda Artiste
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/GUACOLDA/189453928374

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  58. At the risk of feeling like a redneck (because before now thats the only person i believed would say this about tires) How beautiful!

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  59. dont buy.. all of them are punctured... :)

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  60. Stupid and a waste of time and tires.

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  61. i have a tire like this in the garage, now i know what i'll do with it!! :)

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  62. The mark of a true artist.Incredible!
    I can imagine the painstaking hours spent carving the tyres. There are still people who create for the sake of creativity. Hats off.

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  64. Awesome! I didn't know you could do art with used rubber tires. Is it for sale? 'cause I think it can be sold for all it's worth. It's pure Art! Genius! Wim Delvoye is a true master.

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  65. The site is Junk Culture, this is not junk, new tires don't qualify

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  66. ausumness love it :)

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  67. I want some for the moon-mobile I left on the surface of the moon, back in 1972.

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  68. the carving is pretty cool, but those aren't used tires. I sell tires for a living. Those are right out of the rack brand new. They are pretty cheap Goodyear tires based on the tread pattern.

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  70. Awesome art and hats of to u

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  71. Reminds me of Cal Lane's work.

    http://callane.com/

    Very cool

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  73. For the people commenting that these object are "still just tires"...
    I don't understand what you mean. The primary purpose of a tyre is something very different.
    Isn't it almost like saying that feces is still a dinner, just because it once was???
    And yes, that was at the same time a reference to Wim Delvoyes work "cloaca".

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  74. I wonder if these would hold up to low mileage work, like on an antique show car. Just put a tube in them and see if they hold up.

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  76. Looks like tiring work... :/

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  77. AWESOME! That's what I called art.

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  78. Наркоманы шоле?

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  79. Где такую дурь берут?!?!??!
    А интересно, чем резали, не ножами же?

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  80. it's a way to reuse a product that was already given the terrible sentence.

    inspiring stuff!

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  81. Do this to used tires, you wasteful jerk!!

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  82. Aha!

    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tweel-airless-tire.htm

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  83. i love his poo machine and other works! i want to be a versatile artist like him.

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  85. These are good for girls !

    Thanks for sharing

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  86. never seen any thing like this, beautiful

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  87. I like the fact that he can always give his tires additional tread as they start to wear how, but how the heck do you keep the air pressure up?

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  88. I have heard glocal used before (see http://janholmquist.wordpress.com/about/) so I would be cautious about saying that this artist coined the term. It is a fun term, and probably originated in multiple locations.

    The tyres/tires are lovely.

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  89. This is quite something wonderful !

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  90. Thanks for having content worth linking to! I included a link to this post on my own blog. Cheers.

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  92. This is really cool! I don't know why it would be "terrible" as someone else said, I think it's unique and gorgeous! Great post, thanks for sharing such awesome pics!!!

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  94. wow this tire art is so beautiful! Very unique technique used!

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  95. Amazing artwork! Truly beautiful!

    xx Liliana
    http://delightfull.eu

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  97. Absolutely love this, never seen anything like this before...

    blogofacreative.blogspot.com

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  98. Clever and beautifully done...still a tire though.

    I'm loving this

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  99. It's art that will last a long time.
    And it looks like the pig was passed out. Could it be freshly dead? Probably not, more folks would whine. Let's say when it wakes up it will be in pain, but it would be easy to take care of a pig! Pigs get cuts and scratches much worse than tattoos in the wild (without proper nutrition or any real treatment) and we've tattooed animals for a long time, for many reasons; we've used pigs for some medical reasons, though I suppose those may have been dead. Why not let people practice tattooing on them?

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