Last July, Brad Pitt confessed to the writer Ottessa Moshfegh (
My year of rest and relaxation
, Alfaguara, 2018) in the July issue of the men's magazine
GQ
.
The most surprising of all his statements, and the one that made headlines around the world, was the one in which the 58-year-old actor said that he felt that he was reaching the end of his career: “From a time to this part, I see myself already in my last stage.
What will this new phase be like?
How am I going to consider it? ”, He expressed.
However, and as was hinted at in the conversation between Pitt and Moshfegh, the interpreter seemed to refer only to his time in front of the cameras, which after a career of more than 30 intense years, opened up endless possibilities.
Among his great interests, he confessed three: production (Plan B Entertainment, his production company, focused on adapting novels to the big and small screen, is behind the film
Blonde
by
Andrew Dominik or from the series
The Underground Railroad
and
Americanah
), the music (Pitt started playing the guitar during the confinement) and, above all, the sculpture.
Just two months after that interview, in which Pitt showed some of his recent creations to the writer, he has just made his debut as a sculptor at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, in the Finnish city of Tampere.
Pitt was not alone: the performer revealed his creations as part of a larger exhibition by British figurative sculpture artist Thomas Houseago, which also includes a series of ceramics by Australian singer Nick Cave.
This Monday, September 19, the three appeared to the surprise of the media in the Finnish art gallery.
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In total, Pitt has presented nine pieces.
Some of them were described in the specialized medium
The Art Newspaper
: “Among the nine works exhibited is a structure in the shape of a house molded in transparent silicone and fired with bullets, and his first sculpture,
House A Go Go,
from the year
2017;
a 18-inch-tall miniature house made of tree bark, crudely taped together.”
Among the largest pieces, the artist has presented a bronze coffin with hands, feet and faces that try to break through its walls, as well as a plaster sculpture that hangs on the wall and represents a shootout between eight figures.
“For me it's about self-reflection.
It's about where I went wrong in my relationships, where I'm complicit, "Pitt acknowledged during the opening.
"For me, it was born out of owning what I call a radical inventory of self, being really brutally honest with myself and taking into account those I may have hurt and the times I was wrong."
Brad Pitt began working on his sculptures after his divorce from fellow actress and director Angelina Jolie, with whom he has six children together and an open custody battle since 2016. That same year, Pitt stopped drinking and started a treatment in Alcoholics Anonymous.
Since then, as he acknowledged in the
GQ interview,
He has entered a more reflective and introspective stage, where he has sought tranquility and life away from the spotlight.
Nick Cave, Thomas Houseago and Brad Pitt pose among their works on display at the Finnish art gallery. Jussi Koivunen (AP)
So much so, that not even his debut as a sculptor was given preferential treatment, and his arrival in the city of Tampere was a secret until the opening day: "In that sense, this is exciting and wonderful," he confessed. exhibition curator Sarianne Soikkonen on opening day.
Perhaps Brad Pitt is going back to basics, fulfilling the kind of dreams that fame and success did not allow him to carry out: a leisurely life, away from the spotlight and dedicated to art.
He already confessed it in an interview for
Rolling Stone
in 1994: “I don't want them to know me.
I don't know anything about my favorite actors, otherwise they would become celebrities."
