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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    We went uptown and let us tell you, it was fantastic, 1982
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 2 evenings a week

    22.2.1982
    New York, Park Avenue

    In collaboration with friend and artist Anson Seeno, Fabre makes and signs small drawings on dollar bills. He tries to sell these and bags of salt as visual art works to passers-by. This performance touches upon the value of the artist’s signature. 

     

    'It's really great doing things without planning them.
    Just for fun.
    Today I did a performance with Anson Seeno
    on Park Avenue (Uptown).
    We set ourselves up at a table outside a bank.
    We signed packets of salt and 1 dollar notes
    and tried to sell them.
    Didn't sell anything, but had a fantastic blazing
    argument with a group of sometimes
    10 to 15 passers-by on the miraculous relationship
    between capitalism and art.'

    (Jan Fabre, New York, 22 February 1982)

     

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