Brad Pitt is taking a more serious foray into the visual art world. Nine sculptures by the Bullet Train star are now on display as part of a group exhibition led by British artist Thomas Houseago in Finland, reports CNN.
This news shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Pitt has frequently waxed poetic about his love of design and has particularly taken to sculpture and ceramics in recent years. The actor enthusiastically proclaimed his love of The Great Pottery Throw Down during a Bullet Train press tour and reportedly installed a home sculpture studio in which he and his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood costar Leonardo DiCaprio allegedly made pottery together.
Pitt previously discussed his sculpture obsession following his divorce from Angelina Jolie in a GQ profile. The A-lister said he logged many hours experimenting at Houseago’s art studio. “I'm making everything. I'm working with clay, plaster, rebar, wood. Just trying to learn the materials,” he told the magazine in 2017. “I find vernacular in what you can make, rather than giving a speech. I find voice there, that I need.”
In the apparent culmination of the time that the Ad Astra actor spent at Houseago’s studio, Pitt is making his formal artistic debut at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland. The exhibition is titled “We,” and also includes pieces by Houseago and Australian musician Nick Cave.
“For me it’s about self reflection... It was born out of ownership over what I call a ‘radical inventory of the self’. And getting really brutally honest with me and taking account of those I may have hurt and the moments I’ve just gotten wrong,” the actor-turned-artist said of his work at the opening of the exhibition.
Among Pitt’s displayed works are two house-shaped sculptures. One, made of silicon, is studded with bullets. The other, reportedly the first sculpture that he ever completed back in 2017, is called “House A Go Go" and is made up of tree bark and tape.
The exhibition will be on view until January 15, 2023.
