Perfect craftsmanship allows Wim Delvoye’s fabricated, ready-made sculptures to fool the eye, tricking us into thinking he’s performing magic with pieces like this twisting tire. Constructed completely in polished and patinated stainless steel, this remade motorbike tire is fit for a stunt bike. (On view on the Lower East Side at Perrotin through Oct 28th).
Wim Delvoye’s twisted Gothic tower and a bronze crucifix distorted into a Möbius band flirt with potentially provocative subject matter; ultimately, however, his spectacularly distorted swirls of laser-cut metal are all about the wow factor. (At Sperone Westwater on the Lower East Side through June 28th).
Wim Delvoye, Dual Möbius Quad Corpus, polished bronze, 2010.