Sanguine / Bloedrood

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    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

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    The Killing of J.F.K., 1980
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:10:00

    27.10.1980 

    New York, The Village

    In the New York neighbourhood The Village Jan Fabre asks for a gun in one of the local bars. With this gun the artist shoots at a dollar coin with the portrait of JFK. Upon his return to Belgium this coin is hung up in an art gallery.

     

    'During the day, my first action in NYC.

    I shoot John Fitzgerald Kennedy through

    the head (a $1 coin).

    During the night the first series of drawings

    I have created on American soil.

    They are blood drawings

    (a tribute to the American Indians).'

    (Jan Fabre, New York, 27 October 1980)

     

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