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

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 Berlinde De Bruyckere, one of the most important figures in contemporary art, found in the unpublished writings of the well-known South African author the passion and bitter beauty she was looking for.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.