Brad Pitt debuts as a sculptor at exhibition in Finland

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. (CNN) — Brad Pitt made his debut as a sculptor in a group show at the Sara Hildén Museum of Art in Tampere, Finland. The movie star’s artworks appear alongside those of musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago for the “We” exhibition, which runs through Jan. 15, 2023. Among the nine Pitt works featured in On display is a house-shaped structure cast in clear silicone and bearing gunshot marks, and his first sculpture, from 2017, “House A Go Go”: a 18-inch miniature house made of tree bark, crudely held together with Scotch tape. Larger pieces include a coffin-sized bronze box showing hands, feet and faces reaching through the structure at various angles, and a wall-hanging plaster sculpture dubbed “Aiming At You I Saw Me But It Was Too Late This Time” (Aiming At You I Saw Me But It Was Too Late This Time,” 2020, depicting an eight-figure shootout. “Aiming At You I Saw Me But It Was Too Late This Time” by Brad Pitt (2020) Credit: deBranne Treu The “Bullet Train” star reportedly began making ceramic art following his messy divorce from actress Angelina Jolie in 2017. In a statement emailed to The Art Newspaper, Pitt said of his artistic turn, “For me it’s about self-reflection… It was born out of ownership of what I call a ‘radical inventory of self.’ And to be really brutally honest with myself and take into account those I that I could have hurt and the moments in which I left I was wrong.” Pitt at the premiere of “Bullet Train” on August 1, 2022 in Los Angeles. Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage/Getty Images Meanwhile, Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave (not to be confused with the American visual and performance artist of the same name) also makes his artistic debut, displaying “glazed ceramic figurines depicting life of Satan in 17 stations, from innocence through experience to confronting our mortality,” according to a press release. “The Devil: A Life” is Cave’s first major visual work. It includes 17 individual pieces that range between 10 and 50 centimeters in height, each one handmade, painted and enamelled by the author in England, between 2020 and 2022. Aesthetically, the series nods to the artist’s interest in Victorian-style figurines. Staffordshire Flatback, of which he is a collector. Both novice sculptors created these works in dialogue with the considerably more experienced Houseago. The British artist has been working for almost three decades and showed his work at the Whitney Biennial in 2010. A coffin-sized bronze box by Pitt. Credit: deBranne Treu In Tampere, Houseago, better known as a sculptor, shows a series of paintings, a medium with which he began to experiment in recent years. The works come from his large-scale “Visions” series that was done outdoors and was inspired by European symbolists, including the Norwegian Edvard Munch. She also shows new sculptures made in redwood and plaster that she made in response to works in the Fundación Sara Hildén collection, such as Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “Woman in a Car” from 1943 to 1962. Talking about her decision to put on a collaborative show between himself, Cave and Pitt, Houseago said in the press release, “I’m not a me. I’m a WE!” Read more stories from The Art Newspaper here. Top image: Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago and Brad Pitt in “We.”