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Brad Pitt, the award-winning actor, producer and humanitarian, can now add sculptor to his ever-growing list of successful careers. He presented nine of his works at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland on September 19, 2022.
Pitt has already received praise from even his biggest skeptics. British art critic Jonathan Jones said, “Amazingly, Brad Pitt turns out to be a very good sculptor”, and he “dodged the embarrassment of celebrity art to reveal what, by any measure, is a powerful and worthwhile work”.
One of the actor’s plays, titled Aiming at you I saw me but it was too late this time, is a large plaster panel depicting a shootout between eight figures. “For me, it’s a matter of self-reflection,” he said. “It’s about knowing where I went wrong in my relationships, where did I misstep, where am I complicit. For me, it was born out of having what I call a radical inventory about myself, getting really brutally honest with myself and considering who I may have hurt, times when I was just wrong.
The “radical self-inventory” and his life continue with other works, such as a large copper coffin filled with fragmented people as well as a life-size sculpture of a man putting his head in a vice.
Other sculptures of the actor have a sense of inner pain and reflection. For example, Pitt explores the idea of the structure and fragility of the home, perhaps in reference to his divorce from Angelina Jolie in 2016 and the loss of custody of his children. Pitt’s very first sculpture, House in Go Go, is a piece made from scrap wood and tape. Another series of silicone houses are riddled with bullets of varying caliber, with each bullet’s trajectory clearly defined.
Pitt’s work has been shown among his friends British artist Thomas Houseago and musician Nick Cave. “For Nick and I,” he shared, “it’s a new world and our first entry. It just feels right. ‘Largely self-taught’ Pitt wasn’t originally announced for be part of the exhibition, which chief curator Sarianne Soikkonen describes as “in that sense… exciting and wonderful”.
Cave and Pitt created their works “in dialogue with” Houseago, who has been practicing for over three decades and is well known for his sculptures. Due to the pandemic and events in Houseago’s personal life, Houseago decided to include Cave and Pitt in the exhibit originally designed for his work alone. Houseago said in a statement: “I am not a me. I am a WE!”
The exhibition WEfeaturing works by Houseago, Cave and Pitt, will be on display until January 15, 2023 at the Sara Hildén Art Museum.
Brad Pitt can now add sculptor to his growing list of successful careers. He presented nine of his works, alongside his friends Thomas Houseago and Nick Cave, at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Finland.
One of the actor’s pieces, Aiming at you I saw me but it was too late this timeis a large plaster relief depicting a shootout between eight figures.
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The actor describes his plays as being “born out of ownership of what I call a radical inventory of self, becoming really brutally honest with myself and considering those I may have hurt, times when I just deceive”.
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These themes seem to be explored in congruence with the idea of the structure and fragility of the house. A series of house-shaped silicone structures are riddled with bullets of varying calibers, with each bullet’s trajectory clearly defined.
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Another of Pitt’s works shows fragmented bodies in a large coffin-like piece of copper.
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Pitt’s very first sculpture A Go Go Housemade of scrap wood held together with adhesive tape, is also on display.
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The exhibition, titled WEwill be on display until January 15, 2023.
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h/t: [The Guardian]
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