Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964) is a Belgian artist who specializes in sculpture using various media, including wax, wood, wool, and horse skin and hair. Published to coincide with De Bruyckere's participation in the 2013 Venice Biennale, this richly illustrated catalogue traces her work from conception to installation, providing a multifaceted introduction to the artist’s complex and compelling work. Struck by the passion and fierce beauty in the writings of J. M. Coetzee, De Bruyckere asked the acclaimed writer to curate the Belgian Pavilion's exhibition. A previously unpublished text by Coetzee is included in this volume, as well as correspondence that the two exchanged throughout their collaborative process. The book is also enriched by writings by Herman Parret, who explores Saint Sebastian—the dual incarnation of sensuality and mystical suffering, and Venice's quintessential symbol—and his particular significance to De Bruyckere's oeuvre.

Cripplewood / Kreupelhout: 55th International Art Exhibition: The Venice Biennale (La Biennale Di Venezia)

Arts & Photography

COETZEE,J.M.

Parret, Herman

De Bruyckere, Berlinde

Individual Artists

Mercatorfonds

A selection of drawings by two Belgian artists. Berlinde De Bruyckere’s selection of seventy items from Philippe Vandenberg’s extensive legacy of drawings, combined with a selection of her own drawings.

Philippe Vandenberg. Berlinde De Bruyckere: Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst

Reference

Skira

This catalog appears on the occasion of the participation of Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and is the fruit of the exceptional meeting between the Flemish artist and the writer J.M. Coetzee. Berlinde De Bruyckere, one of the most important figures in contemporary art, found in the unpublished writings of the well-known South African author the passion and bitter beauty she was looking for. The Belgian writer Herman Parret also contributed to this work. In the sublime walks he presents us, we discover a key figure in the history of the Serenissima: Saint Sebastian. As "icon of the icon" of Venice, the double image of the sensual and mystical suffering of the saint, as an allegory of love and passion, gets a very special resonance in the work Berlinde De Bruyckere made for the Belgian pavilion. John Maxwell Coetzee is a novelist, essayist, linguist and translator translator. He won the Booker Prize twice and in 2003 received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Herman Parret is emeritus professor at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the University of Leuven (Belgium) where he taught language philosophy and philosophical aesthetics.

Cripplewood: Berlinde De Bruyckere - Venice Biennale - J.M Coetzee (Multilingual Edition)

MERCATOR

De Bruyckere’s (born 1964) eerie figurative sculptures of headless, battered human and animal forms explore vulnerability and loneliness. With text excerpts by J.M. Coetzee, internationally acclaimed South-African novelist and essayist.

Berlinde De Bruyckere: We Are All Flesh

Merz

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