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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A Gambling battle between a curator and an artist , 1991

Jan Hoet, Jan Fabre

Performance , 03:00:00

Jan Fabre & Jan Hoet

24.5.1991.

Tokyo, Patchinko Hall

'In the early evening flirted with the Japanese
Lady Luck again, what a woman!
Played Patchenko for hours together with Jan,
and again he couldn't stop either.
It's a hallucinatory sensation, the sound of hundreds
of thousands of small silver-coloured balls hitting
each other from different directions at high speed.
I Have always liked gambling.
The higher the stakes, the bigger the kick.
I like the sublime moment of the power decision.
I Gamble to win, but not for the winnings.
The game itself is much more fascinating,
even when one loses. The essential thing
is the tension. And the effect it has on me.
When I left I had the feeling my organs were
floating around inside my body.'

(Jan Fabre, Tokyo, 24 May 1991)

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