Guided tour / Jan Fabre
Guided tour of the exhibition Art kept me out of jail
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 18.00
Guided by: Jan Fabre, visual artist and author
Belgian visual artist and author Jan Fabre will held guided tour of the exhibition Art kept me out of jail. The exhibition Art kept me out of jail is focusing on three performance installations Art kept me out of jail (2008), Virgin/Warrior (2004) and Sanguis/Mantis (2001), together with works on paper, photographs and a sculpture on the theme of Fabre/Mesrine. The exhibition is an unique opportunity to see Virgin/Warrior, a joint work by Fabre and Marina Abramović, performed at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The artists are dressed in knight’s armors of a vespula vulgaris (Abramović, role of the virgin) and oryctes rhinoceros (Fabre, role of the warrior). Locked in a glass cube they act out a performance consisting of 26 acts (e.g. clashing armor, breathing, taking up insect positions, carrying each other, removing helmets, cutting into their arms, holding hearts in their hands, ...). Jan Fabre is an artist-researcher, exploring the limits of the body, consciousness and imagination.
Jan Fabre (1958, Antwerp) graduated at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Over the last 30 years he has built up a sizeable body of work and became an internationally acclaimed visual artist, theatre maker and author. He lives and works in Antwerp, where he based the Angelos office (which runs his visual arts) and Troubleyn/Jan Fabre ( which is responsible for his stage work and the work of the Troubleyn/Laboratorium). Fabre has taken part in such major international art events such as the Venice Biennale (different years from 1984, 1990, 2003, 2011), Documenta Kassel (1987, 1992), the Sao Paolo Biennale (1991), the Lyon Biennale (2000), Thessaloniki Biennale (2011) and held large scale solo exhibitions worldwide.
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