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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Television action: The Emperor's New Clothes, 1984
Performance , 00:10:00

(Jan Fabre & Guillaume Bijl, Leo Copers, Jan Vanriet, etc.)

8.4.1984
Brussels, National Broadcast

This piece was presented on national television contemporaneous with the, now historical, theatre production ‘The power of theatrical madness’. He asks each of his artist friends to read a passage from the fairytale ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.