Wim Delvoye began tattooing live pigs(whilst anesthetized) in
1997 in the US, before doing it in China from 2004 to 2008, where animal
welfare laws are more lax. The unusual mixture of tattoos includes Disney princesses, patterns
found on Russian prison inmates and even a Louis Vuitton logo. But animal
rights campaigners complained that the pigs were suffering unnecessarily
and being abused for improper commercial profit. The
animals' skins were sold for up to £55,000 a piece, with one canvas
featuring Disney characters sold to Chanel and made into two bags. Since these
photographs were taken, Mr Delvoye, 49, has worked on other projects
including marble replicas of twisted Gothic-style towers. And
he even tattooed a man’s back before selling it as art - with the
collector bizarrely able to keep the person’s skin when he dies.
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