Stephane Mandelbaum - Artist Info

About Stephane Mandelbaum

  • Biography

    "Stéphane Mandelbaum, Edgy Art and a Life Violently Cut Short," Art & Design Section, The New York Times, by Jason Farago, December 20, 2023.

    In 1980s Belgium, this Jewish artist dared to blur the lines between victims and villains. A bracing retrospective is now at the Drawing Center. (see below)

    Egon Schiele or Ana Mendieta, Amy Winehouse or the Notorious B.I.G.: When an artist dies young, dies dreadfully, it can be hard not to project the end onto all that came before. With the Belgian artist Stéphane Mandelbaum, the subject of a jolting retrospective at the Drawing Center, the trouble is the same.

    In the early 1980s, he frantically drew disfigured...

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