BERN.- The Kunstmuseum Bern presents the largest monographic exhibition of works by Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964) hitherto shown in Europe. The Flemish artist creates deceptively real sculptures and touching drawings of human bodies suffering. The presentation brings them into a dialogue with the works of the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach and the Italian film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini. The human body is one of the most commonly portrayed subjects, and each generation of artists interprets it anew. The exhibition lucidly illustrates Berlinde De Bruyckere’s in-depth examination of Lucas Cranach’s and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work over the past three years. We not only find De Bruyckere’s representations of suffering human beings shocking because of their directness but likewise deeply moving. In her exis-