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Stephane Mandelbaum BIOGRAPHY
1961 Brussels, Belgium - 1986. Known for: Disfigured self portralits, drawings, cartoons, paintings.
"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... Read full 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).... Read full 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... Read full 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 self-portraits, fraught images of Jews and Nazis, and scenes of seedy Brussels... Read full 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 self-portraits, fraught images of Jews and Nazis, and scenes of seedy Brussels nightlife. He worked at large scale, though with nothing fancier than... Read full biography
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"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...But wait, there's more...
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