Nr. 7 COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN PROJECT: RED JUNGLE FOWL - GENUS XY

For the first time in his carreer Koen Vanmechelen presents all steps of his COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN PROJECT in an exhibition, billboards, talks, debates, movies, ...

Some years ago the artist Koen Vanmechelen started breeding new varieties of chicken: crossing international chickens which are national symbols in their respective countries of origin. For example, he crossed the Mechelen Koekoek with the Poulet de Bresse to create the Mechelen Bresse, which he first presented at Z33 (then still called PCBK) in 1999.

Slowly but surely the COSMOPOLITAN CHICKEN PROJECT took shape, a worldwide chicken breeding project in which Koen Vanmechelen fuses the best qualities of various national breeds of chicken to create a super-hybrid, the Cosmopolitan Chicken.

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