French artist hatches up a cracking idea
Print Edition
THE French artist who spent a week entombed inside a rock began an even more bizarre feat yesterday — sitting on a dozen eggs until they hatch.
Abraham Poincheval aims to become a “human hen” by sitting and laying on the eggs inside a glass case at a Paris modern art museum until the chicks emerge.
The performance, called “Egg,” could last three to four weeks, with the artist getting only a half-hour break every 24 hours to keep him from cracking. He is also on a special diet rich in ginger so he can keep the eggs at a minimum of 37 degrees Celsius.
Poincheval, 44, looked distinctly ill at ease as he stepped into the vitrine in the Palais de Tokyo museum in his socks.
He quickly wrapped himself in a heavy traditional Korean cape and sat on a “laying table” specially designed to stop him from accidentally crushing the eggs.
“I have never been so directly exposed to the public before. Usually I am inside something. But every performance is a first,” he said.
His father Christian revealed that when Poincheval was a child he had a pet chicken, and promised that any “hen-men and hen-women” his son brings into the world would be allowed to live out their natural lives on his smallholding in the west of France.
“I have prepared everything to welcome the chicks including a luxury chicken coop. I can assure you that they will never be the centerpiece of a grand feast,” said Christian Poincheval.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
