BELGIUM ~ Chickens - Koen Vanmechelen ~

... First of two great postcards with matching stamps and lovely first day postmarks👍... both the latest new issues by Bpost... Koen Vanmechelen is one of the most versatile of Belgium’s current generation of artists... he takes his famous Cosmopolitan Chicken 🐔Project into a stamp(CCP)... a global interbreeding project involving chicken species from different nationalities as a symbol of global diversity... the primary focus of his art is crossbreeding and biodiversity... Vanmechelen has presented his work on almost all continents... Thanks a lot Johan!❁◕ ‿ ◕❁ 

Koen Vanmechelen (1965)  is an internationally renowned  conceptual artist, working across a multitude of disciplines, he is one of the most versatile thinkers of these times. He is situated at the confluence of art, science, philosophy and community.

The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project started in 1999 by crossing a Mechelen Cuckoo (B) and a Poulet de Bresse (FR). 

Over the years, it has evolved into a universal breeding project and into a metaphorical, global narrative with offshoots into philosophy, science, medicine and sociology. The intended end point is a cosmopolitan chicken that carries the genes of all chicken breeds from all over the world.

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Stamp:

Birds - Rooster

(Issued 29-08-2022)