Berlinde De Bruyckere vs.Tinkebell
Berlinde De Bruyckere is an artist based in Belgium.
She specialises in sculpture in various media including wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair. In 2000, her work with five dead horses, In Flanders Fields, a commentary on World War I, was exhibited at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres. She gained international acclaim at the 2003 Venice Biennale, when her sculptures were shown in the Italian Pavilion.
The duality of love and suffering, danger and protection, life and death continually arises in her work. In her horse sculptures she covers the casts of horses’ bodies with skins and models them into poses. Berlinde de Bruyckere says of the horses’ heads, ‘at the last moment I decided I didn’t want to see a face , nor a muzzle, I sometimes only want to keep a reference to the ears, which are somehow what make it a cuddly animal.’
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Katinka Simonse van Bruggen aka Tinkebell
The Dutch artist TINKEBELL has been exploring the notion of empathy as it relates to the ambiguous morality manifested by animal and environmental activists. In doing so, she uses their highly populistic methods, for example by liberating animals and ‘branding’ the so-called executioners. She employs the often naïve ideas regarding the concept of ‘freedom’ which people – activists – have towards the animal world, and combines this with a systematised form of consumption of animals as a form of entertainment, as presented by animal industries and suchlike. In other words, her work is never about the animals themselves, but about the manner in which people, with their emotions and the moral values connected to them, interpret their perception of the concepts of ‘nature’ and ‘freedom’. Liberating the animals involves an illustration of an ideal – from a construction of moral human concepts – in which the animals – both in captivity as when liberated – are the victims in all cases. In this way Van Bruggen / TINKEBELL. uses the powerless and unwitting animal world as a mirror, a source of reflection for the human struggle with concepts such as good and bad, in which questions concerning ‘naturalness’ and ‘originality’ and the human need to unconsciously control these go hand in hand. The extensive attention her project Pinkeltje (2004-200) received from activists and the media demonstrates that this approach certainly meets with its share of resistance. In this project, she killed her cat with own hands and then had it stuffed and made into a hand bag as a product for consumption, thereby directly bridging the gap between house pet and animal for consumption/production and thus painfully bringing the matter to light.
the hateful reactions were published on May 16th in the book: Dearest Tinkebell.
Q: “There may even come a moment that our connection with an industrially manufactured coke bottle may be richer and more mythical than our relation with a genetically analyzed and manipulated rabbit in the woods.”
diablo said:
it’s really chocked.
bitch.. the dead is not a game!!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 16:41
ANNE CACHOU said:
Absolutely horrible, animals are beautiful when they are living and you have to respect them when they are death.What you call ART is only a mental disease
September 29th, 2009 at 00:21
emilie said:
Quelle horreur, c’est pas un être humain cette folle!!!
il faut l’enfermer et la laisser pourrir et l’exposer
September 29th, 2009 at 02:15
sabrina said:
je trouve ça honteux en plus c’est moche!!!ça c’est de l’art,vas reprendre des cours ma pauvre
September 29th, 2009 at 02:29
claude said:
inutile, lamentable, grossier et vulgaire ! NUL
September 29th, 2009 at 03:10
ROBERT said:
Cette exposition est immonde !!!!!!!!!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 03:37
ROBERT S said:
Quand je pense que j’ai fait une année de Fac d’histoire de l’Art pour voir que l’on cautionne cela
j’ai honte pour vous…….
September 29th, 2009 at 03:53
joelle said:
Absolutely obscene. I never ever would recomend anyone to see the “work” of such an “artist”. Get a life actually!
September 29th, 2009 at 08:06
Angela Gunn said:
ABSOLUTELY VILE THIS IS NOT ART DEAD CARCUSES WHOVER THOUGHT THIS IS ART IS A SICK HUMANBEAST.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:50
Eve said:
Cette personne (?) est totalement malade, il faut la faire enfermer le plus vite possible pour qu’elle cesse ses tortures.
Qu’elle considère la protection animale comme elle veut, ce n’est pas la question. Il existe des lois qui protègent les animaux pour la bonne et simple raison que ceux-ci SOUFFRENT.
Je lui souhaite les pires choses et lui vomis dessus. Ça la fera peut-être tripper…
September 29th, 2009 at 11:53
Catherine said:
Poor you! You are really 2 stupid persons who have nothing else to do in life and want to look so “exquisite” by showing unacceptable things in order to shock people. Congratulations: you are real rebels! Yeah! Miserable!! Poor idiots… et cela se prétend “artiste” … lamentable! À la trappe!
September 29th, 2009 at 14:24
Mary Ann Smale said:
You are a sick, sadistic bitch who should be shot, put that in your nihilistically pathetic pipe along with some horse, dog, cat and pig shit and smoke it! I hope you die a horribly uncomfortable and sickening death completely alone!
September 29th, 2009 at 21:17
Meney said:
c’est une honte,qu’il existe au nom de la culture et de l’”art” des obsénités pareilles!!!
Je ne vois pas de quelles façons et avec quel esprit torturé on peut prétendre à de telles ignominies.;
Je suis scandalisée!!!
September 30th, 2009 at 01:14
caps said:
HORROR!!!
SHAME ON YOU!
September 30th, 2009 at 06:35
MARECHAL said:
IT’S NOT ART!!!
September 30th, 2009 at 06:36
Marie said:
SICK…
October 1st, 2009 at 05:28
persheng warzandegan said:
I think you love HUNTING animals, it is your ZOOGEOGRAPHY, NOT ART.
October 7th, 2009 at 07:29
VAUGONDY said:
Minable! D’habitude, j’adore l’art mais là je ne vois pas OU IL EST! C’est sadique, écoeurant et un manque de respect envers les dépouilles des animaux! Elle traite les animaux Comme des objets et encore! Abject!
October 9th, 2009 at 05:35
Robyn Faith said:
You sick demented Bitch!! Get a F***ing LIFE!!
October 11th, 2009 at 05:45
jtwaldie said:
You are a demon in human form a “narpisach”. This is not fucking art. You are obviously someone with an untreated mental illness who thinks that everyone appreciates your “art”. Only deviance appreciates this deviance. You are a sick individual who needs to be locked up and the key thrown away.
October 11th, 2009 at 08:19
sharu said:
u r SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 11th, 2009 at 08:47
Linda Lachapelle said:
Il faut la dénoncer cette conne, car encore combien d,animaux sera sacrifier pour son exposition?? franchement c,est vraiment horrible ce qu’elle fait aux animaux.Elle mériterait le même sort que ces pauvres bêtes.
October 12th, 2009 at 16:21
kouff said:
Honteux! A vomir! Va te faire soigner, t’es dingue!
October 15th, 2009 at 15:34
Nici said:
hmmmm… interesting
October 16th, 2009 at 03:14
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October 16th, 2009 at 04:25
goliathsouslapluie said:
Wonderful. Ten times bravo. Great art. Je constate que ces oeuvres nous révèlent ceux qui s’indignent facilement et qui n’y voient plus clair dès qu’ils sont choqués, ces incultes ou faux cultivés qui se disent ouverts d’esprit à condition qu’on n’aille pas trop loin. Les oeuvres capables d’un tel exploit sont de plus en plus rares.
October 19th, 2009 at 14:25
gabriel said:
pour faire ce genre d art il ne faut pas etre tres bien dans sa tete ,je ne vois la beautée d un animal mort c est horrible,triste et synique,d ou madame l artiste allez-vous pendre et n oubliez pas de vous filmer j assisterai volontié
October 25th, 2009 at 03:44
feroze13 said:
Fantastic.Pretty fucking amazing.
October 25th, 2009 at 09:34
L.A.R.A. said:
A mes yeux,cela s’apparente plus à de la nécrophilie qu’à de l’art.
Celle-ci étant considérée comme une pathologie psychiatrique,l’auteur de ces ignominies comme ceux qui les cautionnent relèvent du domaine médical.
November 17th, 2009 at 21:06