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Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth

27 Nov 14 – 10 Jan 15, Open Tuesday - Saturday

The dark, visceral world of Berlinde de Bruyckere comes to life at Hauser & Wirth, London in a new exhibition inspired by the abattoir

By CW Contributor on 17/11/2014

After Cripplewood I, 2013-2014, 2014, Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth London
After Cripplewood I, 2013-2014, 2014, Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth London
Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth Ali Godwin
You might know her for her distinctive horsehide sculptures; now Belgian artist, Berlinde de Bruyckere, returns to both haunt and beguile us with a new body of work at Hauser & Wirth, London.

Of tender skin is a return to recurrent themes and materials in de Bruyckere’s work; yet make no mistake, these sculptures and drawings take the original concepts to an entirely new direction. Continuing to confront the viewer, these unique pieces of contemporary art manage to straddle the dizzying lines between mortality and sensuality.

Berlinde de Bruyckere: horses and sculptural practice

Since the start of her career in 1999, De Bruckere has consistently employed equine imagery in her work. For this latest exhibition de Bruyckere has created a series of hanging wall sculptures composed of wax, leather, cloth, rope, iron and epoxy resin in response to her visit to an abatoir last year. Inert, raw, bulbous and hugely visceral, the contrast of materials invokes a discombobulating split between concurrent dualities: soft and hard, male and female, decay and resilience. The gnarled, organic shapes bring to mind relics of a forgotten age or strange talismanic objects that manage to at once attract and repel.

Hauser & Wirth: Berlinde de Bruyckere exhibition highlights

Also on display is After Cripplewood I, 2013 – 2014 (2014), a development of the dazzling monolithic sculpture, Kreupelhout – Cripplewood (2012 – 2013), which received critical acclaim at the Venice Biennale 2013. At the Hauser and Wirth Gallery London, the mammoth tree trunk from the Biennale has been adapted to a more human scale and anthropomorphic form that recalls pink sinewy ligaments, rheumatoid joints and bone. Resting on a makeshift trestle resembling a stretcher, one cannot help but think of the terrible fronts of Passchendale, Ypres and Arras that decimated the Belgian countryside during the First World War. Here, de Bruyckere’s sculpture appears living, though momentarily silenced.

Of all the exhibitions in London 2014, ‘Of tender skin’ is not for the fainthearted, but if you’re prepared to embrace the dark, visceral aspect to de Bruyckere’s work, you’ll find it’s also truly enlightening and rapturous along the way.



What Berlinde de Bruyckere: Of tender skin, Hauser & Wirth
Where Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London, W1S 2ET | MAP
Nearest tube Green Park (underground)
When 27 Nov 14 – 10 Jan 15, Open Tuesday - Saturday
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information



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    Launched in 2003 by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, and mother-in-law Ursula Hauser, the powerhouse gallery boasts a stellar roster of emerging and established modern and contemporary artists such as Paul McCarthy, Anri Sala and Matthew Day Jackson. With three stunning spaces in Mayfair, as well as sites in New York and Zurich, and most recently Somerset, the gallery’s beautifully curated exhibitions never fail to delight.

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    Berlinde de Bruyckere represented Belgium at the 2013 Venice Biennale with her leviathan sculpture Kreupelhout – Cripplewood (2012 – 2013) where she collaborated with the South African Noble Prize winner J.M, Coeetzee who curated the project.

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