Koen VANMECHELEN (Sint-Truiden, 26 August 1965) is a contemporary Belgian conceptual artist with international fame. He started his career in the early 1990s and has since become one of the most prolific and prominent contemporary artists in Belgium. His comprehensive and innovative work explores the theme of bio-cultural diversity through the Gallus gallus domesticus or chicken, and its ancestor, the Bankiva hen.
His best-known project is The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project or CCP[1], an international event in which he searches for a hybrid or cosmopolitan chicken by crossing national chicken breeds. This super-hybrid would eventually carry genes from all the chicken breeds in the world. The 17th generation, the Mechelen Styrian, was born in April 2013 in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.[2] Together with his two other cosmopolitan projects, the CosmoGolem[3] and The Walking Egg,[4] The Cosmopolitan Chicken Research Project (CC®P)[5] forms the core of his work, which the artist oversees from the Open University of Diversity,[6] in the old Gelatine factory of Hasselt.
| Technique | Offset |
| Dimensions | 40 x 30 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Unsigned/Print signed |
| Framed | Framed |
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