Berlinde De Bruyckere
Arter/Çukurcuma Hammam
For her first solo exhibition in Istanbul, “The Wound,” Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere filled three floors of the contemporary art space Arter as well as the historic Çukurcuma Hammam with her signature pseudo-anatomical sculptures, including four new works. As suggested by the exhibition’s title, recurring aspects in her oeuvrepeeled skin, open wounds, morbid flesh toneswere on display, most boldly realized in the site-specific -009-, 2011–12, a suite of sculptures resembling raw tree limbs and human bones leaning in a vitrine placed in Arter’s window and thus seen by thousands