Wim Delvoye, 36

Wim Delvoye's latest work looks perfectly harmless in the middle of his chaotic studio in a nondescript part of Ghent. But that is only because it is at rest before heading off in May for the inaugural exhibit of Vienna's new Kunsthalle, and then on to Zurich's Migros Museum and then to New York. Normally it leaves no viewer unmoved. Called Cloaca, it consists of some $200,000 worth of chemical beakers, electric pumps and plastic tubing arrayed on a row of antiseptic stainless steel tables. When Cloaca is on exhibit, an attendant climbs the...

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