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, Collection M HKA, photo: Christine Clinckx
Action: Cleaning the Museum, 1979
Performance , 00:40:00

7.4 - 24.4.1979
​Antwerp, Jordaenshuis

Belgium is the only country where floor cloths bear the colours of the national flag. With these cloths the artist cleans the Jordaenshuis in Antwerp. On these rags Jan Fabre writes poetical texts with Bic, for example: ‘Only acts of poetical terrorism’