No life lost

Summer really arrived today! It was almost too hot when we worked in the garden. 
 
Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere has an exhibition at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, where we visited in the afternoon. It is her first solo exhibition in Finland. Bruyckere lives at area which witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the First World War. She is fascinated with the horses. In her works the motif of the horse represents feelings of human loss and hostility. Dead horses, the innocent victims of the First World War is a metaphor that represents the feelings aroused by the war.

In the photo is part of Bruyckere's work  No Life Lost II. The sculpture is made of horse skin, wood, glass, fabric, leather, blankets, iron and epoxy.

I must say I did not enjoy watching dead horses, layered bloody horse skins or tree trunks painted to look like dead human beings. I wouldn't have minded skipping this experience.


+20°C!!!, sunny