Wim Delvoye's latest exhibition turns up the volume, featuring must-see sculptures from the last five years.

Design Milk featured Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s carved tires back in 2012. His new exhibition on view at Galerie Perrotin in New York this month turns up the volume, featuring must-see sculptures from the last five years. In a variety of materials, it all feels like a competition between machine precision and hand-made perfection – where too much is not enough, and everybody wins.
Wim Delvoye exhibition at Perrotin New York
Dunlop Geomax 100/90-19 57M 720 2x, 2013 (detail)
For his ?Twisted Tire? series, a motorcycle tire was digitally scanned and warped into various Möbius forms. The ENTIRE thing is cast in stainless steel, with a black patina to mimic rubber (there is no rubber in this sculpture). See other Möbius tire versions here. Wim Delvoye exhibition at Perrotin New York
The centerpiece of the show is the REAL 1950?s Maserati 450S racing car that has been intricately hand-embossed by Iranian artisans hired by Delvoye. It?s ALMOST too much ? like inlaying diamonds INTO a ruby, but I can’t look away. The result is a unbelievable 360° view of thousands of hand-tapped details.
Maserati, 2012 (detail)
Other embossed aluminum objects litter the exhibition, including a set of modified Rimowa luggage pieces (also not cheap) and 2 fire extinguishers that look like they just happened to be in the gallery during this detail festival...