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Brad Pitt, a longtime Hollywood superstar who in the past few years has undergone a late-career renaissance of sorts, has just logged a fresh accomplishment for his resumé: on September 18th, the Sara Hildén museum in Tampere, Finland debuted an exhibition centering the work of British artist Thomas Houseago that also features work by Pitt and the musician Nick Cave. This marks the first time that the actor has shown his artwork in public.
According to the museum’s website, Pitt’s contributions to the exhibition are mostly sculptural and include “a molded plaster panel depicting a gunfight narrative scene, cast using multiple impressions of the human body, as well as a series of plinth-mounted, house shaped sculptures molded in clear silicone that each have been shot with a different gauge of ammunition.”
While a representative for the museum declined to make a curator available for comment, and Pitt’s representatives didn’t respond to requests for comment, it’s clear that the actor’s mind was on intimate conflict and the annihilation of normative family structures when you take in his work.