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- Affiliation:
- Troubleyn / Jan Fabre vzw
- Location:
- Antwerp, Belgium, 2060
- Phone:
- ++32 (0)3 201 13 00
- Birthday:
- December 14, 1958
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Jan Fabre
This exhibition shows the work of stage director, choreographer and visual artist Jan Fabre, seen through the eyes of famous photograhpers. In Borrowed time Fabre juxtaposes a selection of his project sketches and drawings executed in Chinese ink or blue ballpoint pen with photographs photographer friends have taken of... his theatre productions during rehearsals or during the actual performances. It is as if the director's gaze crosses that of the photographers, resulting in a personal view of Jan Fabre's universe, with a strong visual bias and the standpoint of the 'ideal spectator'.
Born and bred in Antwerp, Jan Fabre is at home in all the art disciplines and moves freely from one to another. In the last 25 years he has produced more dan 30 dance, theatre and opera productions in addition to his work as a visual artist. Twelve photographers (Helmut Newton, Carl De Keyzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jorge Molder, Malou Swinnen, Dirk Braeckman, Maarten Vanden Abeele, Wonge Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Stoop, Pierre Coulibeuf, Filip Van Roe and Patrick Selitto) have captured his productions on camera since the 1980s. Each photographer reacts differently to Fabre's work, turning what he sees into his own imagery and thus abandoning the customary documentary approach to theatre photography.
The exhibition comprises a total of approximately 150 works: black & white and colour photographs by the above-mentioned photographers and crayon drawings and maquettes by Jan Fabre. The most recent relate to Fabre's 'Requiem für eine Metamorphose', created for the Salzburger Festspiele in the summer of 2007.
Time:7:00PM Monday, April 14th
Location:BOZAR
April 14, 2008 at 2:03pm
Jan Fabre In opdracht van Koningin Paola van België installeert hij in 2002 "Heaven of Delight" in het Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel, een verwijzing naar "De Tuin der Lusten" van Hieronymus Bosch of "Garden of (earthly) delights" (Museo del Prado,Madrid). De creatie bestaat erin, dat men het plafond van de grote spiegelzaal en e...en grote luchter volledig belegd heeft met anderhalf miljoen groen-blauwglinsterende schilden van Thailands-exotische juweelkevers of de scarabee (sternocera acquisignata) waarbij de schitterende iriserende kleuren het gevolg zijn van de structuur der schilden. Assistenten vulden de schilden met zwarte silicone en kleefden ze geordend tegen het plafond. Door de aftekening van de letter P verwijst hij naar naar de opdrachtgeefster, koningin Paola. Het plafondwerk van Fabre is niet uit het niets ontstaan maar gaat terug op de fresco's uit de renaissance en de barok met de bekende fresco's van Michelangelo Buonarotti in de Sixtijnse Kapel (1508-12) te Rome in opdracht van Paus Julius II.
Jan Fabre
Following upon the successes of the first three editions of Counterpoint, te Louvre continues to pursue its policy of openness to contemporaru art and living arts by extending an invitation this spring to Jan Fabre. Within the galleries devoted to the painted works of the Flemisch, Dutch and German Schools, visitors ar...e encouraged to rediscover celebrated works by masters such as van Eyck, van der Weyden, Bosch, Metsys and Rubens through the eyes of Jan Fabre.
The itinerary proposed by Jan Fabre through the museum's collections may be perceived as a "mental drama" featuring the major elements of his own life work and those of the old masters. The artist seeks to connect his univers with the main themes running through the Louvre's collections: death and resurrection, the vanities of human life, sacrifice, money, madness, carnival, battles, the artist's studio. Some thirty works
-ranging from drawings, sculptures, video and other installations to performance pieces captured on film-thus punctuate the itinerary imagined by the artist.
The continuity of the dialogue between Jan Fabre and the Dutch, Flemish and German old masters, a legacy ever present in the artist's approach to his work, as well as the types of interventions placed on view, enhanced the power and mystery of the works in the Louvre's collections and endow them with new meanings.
April 13, 2008 at 2:48pm
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