During the cultural city festival Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens Inspires, the M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, juxtaposes the spirit of the baroque masters with the vision of contemporary top artists. With the exhibition Sanguine/Bloedrood (Blood Red), curator Luc Tuymans aims to overwhelm the visitor by placing key works from the baroque of, among others, Francisco de Zurbarán and Caravaggio, in dialogue with works by classical contemporary masters, such as On Kawara and Edward Kienholz, as well as new works by contemporary stars such as Zhang Enli, Takashi Murakami, Michaël Borremans, Sigmar Polke and Tobias Rheberger. 

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Jan Fabre

(c)Angelos bvba, photo: Lieven Herreman
Action: Bic Art Propaganda, 1979
Performance , several months

Antwerp, Julius de Geyterstraat 205

The Bic Art Propaganda is mail art avant-la-lettre. The envelopes of these mailed postcards carry a pun on the artist’s financial straits. In Belgium one has to collect a stamp every day to receive unemployment benefits.