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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    The Creative Hitler Act, 1980
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 01:00:00

    7.11.1980
    Milwaukee, Saint-Louis University

    The Creative Hitler Act (an allusion to Duchamp’s The Creative Act) is concerned with the artist as dictator. Jan Fabre adapts pages and phrases from fairytales, generating new meanings. The artist as individualist determines the language he uses.

     

    'Performed 'The Creative Hitler Act' today.

    My response to Marcel Duchamp's

    legendary lecture 'The Creative Act'.

    Confusion prevailed.

    The brains went haywire and their

    underbelly was emty.

    Interpretations went in some horrible directions.

    (I permitted it with laughing eyes

    and an angry mouth.)'

    (Jan Fabre, Milwaukee, 7 November 1980)

     

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