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ZÉ KIELWAGEN: WINGS (YELLOW/GREEN)

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Zé Kielwagen, wings (yellow pair), 2013, 15x10x5cm, glazed porcelain, edition of 500

Value: $300

Between 2011 and 2014 Kielwagen created around 600 objects inspired by chicken wings. In this craft-intensive series, he explored bronze and aluminum casting, ceramics, cement and paper. Chicken wings come from the one of the most abused animals on the planet. We know their anatomy well. Bronze adds weight to this guilty pleasure, as well as some material value to one of the market’s cheapest meats. The choice of a risen chicken wing as an iconic object, as well as its obsessive repetition, came from a research on violence in the works of Georges Bataille and Slavoj Zizek. Violence is in our plates every day. What does that mean for us?

Ceramics offered infinite possibilities of color and texture. Kielwagen mixed his porcelain slip and glazes from scratch and experimented with different glaze recipes and combinations, as well as different firing techniques.

Zé Kielwagen (b. Santa Catarina, Brazil) is a transmedia artist from Brazil, based in the US. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Ghetto Biennale of Haiti, the Queens Museum of NYC, the Museum of Natural History of Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, and others.