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This book documents a major exhibition by acclaimed Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964, Ghent) at Bozar–Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. De Bruyckere’s powerful sculptures, installations and drawings set out to embody the world’s great stories.
Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, De Bruyckere is known to layer existing histories with new narratives, hereby creating a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness

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This book documents a major exhibition by acclaimed Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964, Ghent) at Bozar–Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. De Bruyckere’s powerful sculptures, installations and drawings set out to embody the world’s great stories.
Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, De Bruyckere is known to layer existing histories with new narratives, hereby creating a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness

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