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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    (c)Angelos bvba, photo: Max Ratjen
    Parrots and guinea pigs, 2003
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:30:00

    20.3.2003
    Paris, L'Arche éditeur

    On the twentieth anniversary of the collaboration between Jan Fabre and his French publisher  L’Arche the artist conceives a performance in the publisher’s shopwindow in the Rue Bonaparte. The underlying theme is ‘Everyone is a Belgian guinea pig’. 

     

    'Performed a poetic action
    in the shopwindow of my Paris publishers:
    'Every Belgian is a guinea pig and a parrot'.
    (The glory of experiment and repetition was in
    power.)
    I found sand in the desert
    and my repetition told a secret
    out of a mirror without an image.
    (For Marcel Broodthaers and Freddy De Vree.)

    (Jan Fabre, Paris, 20 March 2004)

     

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