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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    The Problem (Homage to Dietmar Kamper), 2001
    Peter Sloterdijk, Dietmar Kamper, Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:30:00

    Hessen, Otzberg
    2001

    Jan Fabre makes this film in collaboration with the German philosophers Dietmar Kamper and Peter Sloterdijk. Like dung beetles the three gentlemen roll a ball through a romantic scenery while philosophising over the problem. 

     

    'These are days of wind and ignorance.
    For me an evening of inexhaustible joy.
    The German philosophers Peter Sloterdijk
    and Dietmar Kamper
    and I, dressed in dinner jackets, were godlike
    dung beetles
    in a Caspar David Friedrich landscape
    rolling each other's problems towards each other
    and gladly making
    each other's porblem bigger.
    (Day of shooting film sequences for the
    performance 'The Problem'.)'

    (Jan Fabre, Otzberg, 8 October 2001)

    'The performance I have done in the last few days
    is for you, Dietmar Kamper.
    Friend, I know you are going to die.
    The cancer is devouring you from the inside.
    I shall not exchange the rain for tears.
    I shall let the wind cry in my place.
    Where a man has to fail
    you my friend will be the end.
    A little dust and ashes
    a landscape of dry fields.
    Where you will
    continue rolling
    your globe of the world
    your dung-beetle globe
    your problem
    you will become
    an edible planet full of knowledge
    that will never fade.' 

    (Jan Fabre, Otzberg, 10 October 2001)

     

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