Bruce High Quality Foundation, Self Portrait (Peekabruce) 2001/2010/2012. Shadow Box, mixed media. Courtesy Bruce High Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin
Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Transubstantial Bruce
16 February – 16 March 2013
at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
It would surprise many to know that Bruce High Quality attended weekly Mass. Scourge of both the radical left and the religious right, it’s difficult to imagine the world’s greatest ironist as a true believer. Nonetheless, there He was, week after week, checking in with the man upstairs. And while we cannot presume to know His most sacred heart of hearts, it is clear now, some twelve years after His passing, that Bruce High Quality intended to leave behind truly devotional icons for a truly secular age.
“The Transubstantial Bruce†is the first exhibition ever devoted to High Quality’s spiritual concern. From “The Sacraments,†His masterful series of play-doh reliquaries, to the grand triptych self-portrait, “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,†which casts Bruce High Quality’s death mask, a makeshift cross, and an inflatable scab rat as the consubstantial, co-equal, and co-eternal trinity, High Quality’s intention to bring us face to face with the great beyond is barefaced. [read the full text here]
Contemporary Fine Arts
Am Kupfergraben 10
10117 Berlin Mitte
Germany
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Saturday: 11h00 – 16h00
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Self Portrait (The Service) 2001/2010/2012. Shadow Box, mixed media. Courtesy Bruce High Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Self Portrait (Roy) 2001/2010/2012. Shadow Box, mixed media. Courtesy Bruce High Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Installation view, 2013. Courtesy Bruce high Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Installation view, 2013. Courtesy Bruce high Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Installation view, 2013. Courtesy Bruce high Quality Foundation and CFA, Berlin