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Guillaume Bruère – DEAD & ALIVE. Alte Meister| Old Masters
"I am there and it paints in me," Guillaume Bruère says of his drawings in museums in front of New and Old Masters of art history. Much of what he transfers into the picture is unknown to him: "Part of me also wants to remain ignorant." With what view does the artist, who grew up without religion in France, approach the Christian imagery stored in museums?
Johannes Rauchenberger, director of the KULTUM – MUSEUM for Contemporary Art and Religion in Graz and lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Graz, brings together for the first time in this book the religious motifs from Bruère's gigantic oeuvre of more than 40,000 works. The author explores the artist's alien and at the same time tremendously sympathetic view of Christianity. These works were all created without a commission. They lack the usual distance, are without irony, but also without affirmation. Nevertheless, they are tremendously radical. An existential concern breaks through, which is connected with a re-interpetation of central Christian pictorial ideas. This work appears singular in the contemporary context of art and religion.
Guillaume Bruère