8 September 2007 – 25 November 2007

Berlinde de Bruyckere, Jenny Saville, Dan Flavin

The common interest in themes such as pain, suffering, disability, guilt and atonement makes the combination of works by the Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and the British painter Jenny Saville not only comprehensible but actually quite obvious. However different their artistic materials and techniques – sculpture and painting – might at first appear to be, the two artists establish contact in their individual formulations. The collaged ground in Jenny Saville’s paintings not only makes apparent the object-like qualities of her painting, but assimilates them to Berlinde De Bruyckere’s technique of fragmentation, familiar to us from her horse torsos, and also apparent in her hermaphroditic wax figures. Conversely, however, the element of painting is an absolutely central factor in the achievement of the delicate surface structure of De Bruyckere’s wax sculptures

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Kunstmuseum Luzern
Europaplatz 1
6002 Luzern
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http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

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Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m.-17 , Wednesday - 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The collection of the Museum of Art Lucerne consists primarily of Swiss art from the Renaissance through to the present day.

New building opened in 2001; architect: Jean Nouvel

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