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Berlinde De Bruyckere
Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025
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A few months ago at a gallery dinner, I asked a German collector about the last work of art that had wowed him.
He breathlessly described seeing Berlinde De Bruyckere's installation of donkeys at the San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venice. It was only later I realized I'd misheard him, mistaking the German word Engel (angel) for Esel (donkey). To distract myself from my own embarrassment, I decided that my imagined installation was better. Elevating the humble donkey - key to Jesus's story but less frequently celebrated in sacred art - would have been subversive: Angels in a church? A kitschy mess.
In 'Khorós', a survey of De Bruyckere's work at Bozar in Brussels, religious imagery - and animals - abound.
One of the angels, Archangel III (San Giorgio) (2023-24), is back, looming over exhibition-goers from a pedestal of ancient planks. He is surrounded by a series of wall-based wood and glass vitrines filled with cast-wax body parts displayed like holy relics (
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