Sanguine / Bloedrood

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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Performance X ... Art as a Cultivated Boredom, 1981

Jan Fabre

Performance

Paris, C.A.I.R.N. Performance Festival

Jan Fabre never carried out this performance. The artist intended to create a new language by means of punning. At the same time he would climb out of a self-made tower with a golden ladder.

= NEVER PERFORMED

'The C.A.I.R.N. performance festival is badly
organised.
And what a low standard of performances.
The ones I have seen were dustbins full
of ignorance, without risk or vision.
I have a vague suspicion (to put it mildly) that most
of these performance artists are simply bad visual
artists and therefore misuse the performance
medium to hide their non-talent.
I have decided not to do my new performance here.
I want to leave quietly from this pretentious city
where they refuse to speak a word of English.
And where they think they are still the centre of the
world. Frustrated by not having a king and queen,
they have elected several intellectual popes.
And the only art they practise is that of the insult.
The foreigner. The visitor. I have had the
opportunity to physically experience their
moral superiority.'

(Jan Fabre, 12 April 1981)

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