Brad Pitt makes sculptor debut in Finland: “It’s about what I’ve done wrong in my relationships” | Celebrities

His art exhibition is located on a lake in Tampere, Finland’s second largest city, where the actor showed up as an unexpected surprise. It is the first time the “largely self-taught” American star has presented his sculptures to the public, according to the Sara Hildén Art Museum.

Pitt’s sculptures were unveiled on Saturday by the 58-year-old actor himself as part of a larger exhibition by British artist Thomas Houseago, alongside a ceramics series by Australian musician Nick Cave. “For Nick and me, this is a new world and our first entry. It just feels right,” Pitt told Finnish broadcaster Yle during the opening ceremony.

Pitt’s nine works in the show include a cast plaster panel “depicting a gun battle” and a series of house-shaped silicone sculptures, each shot with a different amount of ammunition. “For me, it’s about self-reflection. It’s about what I’ve done wrong in my relationships, where I’m complicit,” Pitt said at the opening. “For me, it arose from ownership of what I call a radical inventory of myself. Brutal honesty with myself while taking into account those I may have hurt.”

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The actor reportedly started working with pottery after his divorce from Angelina Jolie, spending up to 15 hours a day at Houseago’s Los Angeles studio in 2017. He told GQ in August that he didn’t view his experiments with ceramics as art, but as a “solo, very calm, very tactile kind of sport”.

Pitt’s unexpected visit surprised the Scandinavian country, as his involvement in the exhibition had not been previously announced. “In that sense, this is exciting and wonderful,” chief curator Sarianne Soikkonen told Agence France-Presse. She added that Houseago’s decision to include his friends in his exhibition was shaped by the pandemic and “events in Houseago’s personal life”.

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