SELECTED WORKS BY Berlinde de Bruyckere
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Berlinde de Bruyckere
K36 (The Black Horse) (and details)
2003
Polyurethane foam, horse hide, wood, iron
Overall size 295 x 286 x 158 cm |
 
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Berlinde de Bruyckere is a young artist from Belgium. The duality of love and suffering, danger and protection, life and death continually arises in her work. In her horse sculptures she covers the casts of horses’ bodies with skins and models them into poses. Berlinde de Bruyckere says of the horses’ heads, ‘at the last moment I decided I didn’t want to see a face , nor a muzzle, I sometimes only want to keep a reference to the ears, which are somehow what make it a cuddly animal.’ |
Berlinde de Bruyckere
Marthe (and 1 detail)
2008
Wax, epoxy, metal, wood and glass
280 x 172.5 x 119.5 cm |
 
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Berlinde de Bruyckere
By Depont
Since the early nineties, Berlinde de Bruyckere has been working with blankets–woolen blankets that cover and protect–as the material for her sculptures and installations. For De Bruyckere they symbolize not only warmth and shelter, but also vulnerability and fear. Fear that makes people crawl under blankets and vulnerability in situations related to cold, illness, disaster and war. They are the images–from Somalia, Ruanda or Kosovo–which the media show us every day: images from hotbeds of violence which cause the population to flee, to hide or to shiver from cold. Victims are wrapped in blankets. The suffering is covered. In De Bruyckere’s studio, such newspaper photographs are present as quiet moments among the day-to-day memoranda. They are often images in which sadness and beauty seem to compete for attention.
One of De Bruyckere’s first sculptures with blankets consisted of a simple stack of folded blankets on an unsteady wooden stool (untitled, 1991). The order and balance of the stack are almost literally undermined here by the tremendously tilted base. Dekenhuis (House of Blankets) from 1993 is a metal cage over which blankets have been draped. One corner of the cage remains uncovered, but the ‘house of blankets’ is inaccessible and offers only the suggestion of shelter. Berlinde de Bruyckere says the following about the use of blankets in her work: “To me, a blanket is a symbol of security. It has a soul, which usually has a positive connotation. A blanket tucks you in; you feel like the child sitting indoors while it’s raining outside. I also use the blanket as a negative object. You can give someone so much love and safety that it smothers him, that he can no longer find himself. Lying under a pile of blankets can be disorienting! I like to play with that ambiguity in my work.”
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Source: www.depont.nl
Peter Buggenhout and Berlinde de Bruyckere at Brakke grond
By Janet Koplos
This two-person show consisted of separate installations by Peter Buggenhout and Berlinde de Bruyckere, a married couple who live in Ghent, Belgium. She is the better known of the two, because her work in two recent outdoor shows in Holland provoked minor controversies.
In this exhibition at the Flemish Cultural Center in Amsterdam, there could be no such confusion. De Bruyckere constructed a rectangular, three-level metal-and-wood platform. Scaffolding elements protruded on three sides, as if assembly had stopped in process. The lowest level was empty.
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Source: www.findarticles.com
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