My friend Carine, who now lives in Nairobi, shared the above photograph of this major sculpture of one of Belgium's most interesting artists, Berlinde de Bruyckere. The lifesize representation of a horse is now on display in the residence of the Belgian Ambassador there.
Berlinde's work is shown together with a local artists expositon Funika-Fufuka (Cover-Recover) curated by Gonda Geets, a Belgian artist who lives in Nairobi. Funika-Fufuka’s theme is what the catalogue calls the history of humanity, with all the nuances of pain and healing, vulnerability and violence that entails.
http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Dazzling-display-that-lifts-spirit/-/434746/1633494/-/5l8571z/-/index.html
http://www.hanstheys.be/artists/berlinde_de_bruyckere/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinde_de_Bruyckere
