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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    Art kept me out of jail (Homage to Jacques Mesrine), 2008
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 04:00:00

    22.4.2008
    Paris, Musée du Louvre, Galerie Daru & Cour Napoléon

    In this performance, running for four hours Fabre transforms himself in the diverse disguises of Jacques Mesrine, French enemy of the state number one. He tries to escape from the institute Louvre, where a big Fabre exhibition is running. He quotes the gangster and will eventually die, like Mesrine, in a hail of bullets. 

     

    'Two o'clock in the morning.
    Alone in my hotel room again.
    I need that.
    Sometimes I give too much to the outside world.
    I'm physically shattered.
    My brain is aflame and inside my skull it's
    much too warm.
    It was a hellish but exciting five-hour journey.
    My performance 'Homage to Jacques Mesrine'
    in the 70m-long Galerie Daru in the Louvre.
    But what a kick (my whole body was quivering)
    to be riddled with bullets at the end of the
    performance (the same number of bullets
    with which Jacques Mesrine was murdered
    by the French police in the centre of Paris)
    at the feet of the goddess Nike.
    (And yet I escaped and got out alive from the finest
    and best secured prison in France, the Louvre.)
    Tomorrow I can go home.
    To my free zone, Antwerp.
    And sleep, that will be for tomorrow.'

    (Jan Fabre, Paris, 22 April 2008)

     

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