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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    Action: The Man Measuring the Clouds, 1997-2000
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , various

    Different locations
    Duration: various 

    In homage to his dead twin brother Emile Fabre, the artist attempts to measure the immeasurable: the clouds. This action, which led to the famous bronze sculpture, is based on a quote from the prisoner and ornithologist Robert Stroud after his release: ‘I’m going to measure the clouds’.

     

    'I'm in a poetic hell!
    Today I installed a new work in a window display
    box in Offerandestraat (the only-free pedestrian
    shopping street in Antwerp, masses of pf people pass
    along it).
    I modelled a little man measuring the clouds, in clay.
    And above him hang clouds of expanded
    polystyrene.
    I painted it all light grey-blue.
    It is an offering, a tribute,
    to my dead brother, Emile Fabre'

    (Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 3 December 1978)

     

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