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

(c)image: M HKA
Fantasie-insecten-sculpturen [Imaginary-insect-sculptures], 1979
Installation , 130 x 65 x 90 cm
spiders, abacus, shell-cocoon

Already at the age of twenty, Jan Fabre makes insect drawings and transforms insects (e.g. beetles) into surreal objects. Fabre wants to show the world of insects, which we usually connect with fear and ugliness, from its most brilliant and interesting side.