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Berlinde De Bruyckere: In the Woods there were Chainsaws
Out of print – currently unavailable
about the book
about the book
“For this book, I did not choose the texts, they came by chance, closely interwoven with my work. In this book I bring together sculptures of the past two years, wherein tree, man, metamorphoses are the subject. While selecting the images, or rather arranging them, I discovered the ‘great diversity’ with which each sculpture portrays this subject matter. … My sculptures generate themselves, they each portray their hunger for existence and the toil of their coming into being. But eventually they stand alone, revealing their existential solitude.” – A Consideration on the Choice of Texts and the Title by Berlinde De Bruyckere





The Artist
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Working with casts made of wax, animal skins, hair, textiles, metal and wood, Berlinde De Bruyckere renders haunting distortions of organic forms. The vulnerability and fragility of man, the suffering body – both human and animal – and the overwhelming power of nature are some of the core motifs of De Bruyckere’s oeuvre.