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Jan Fabre

09.24.04 - 10.17.04
Performance — Studio du CDC

Image de la performance Angel of Death (2003), performée par Ivana Jozic.

Born 1958 in Antwerp (Belgium), he lives there.

 

Jan Fabre is an artist, theatre-maker and author. He was born in Antwerp in 1958. In the late seventies he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art and the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp. His first works date from that period.

Jan Fabre makes installations, sculptures, drawings, films and performances. Over the years he has built up a sizeable body of work and has become internationally acclaimed.

His best-known works include Tivoli (1990, Mechelen), a mansion covered entirely in ballpoint drawing, The man who measures the clouds (1998), a bronze sculpture, versions of which can be seen at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, de Singel in Antwerp, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and in the sculpture garden at Catanzaro in Italy; and not least Heaven of Delight (2002), a permanent work commissioned by Queen Paola of Belgium for the Mirror Hall at the Royal Palace in Brussels. 

 

He was also given a residency at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique in Toulouse in winter 2004 and has presented one of his most impressive recent works, The Angel of Death, in the refectory at Les Jacobins. A four-screen video installation whose images were made at the Museum of Anatomy in Montpellier.

 

Fabre's residency at the CDC in Toulouse resulted in the creation of Etant donnés at the Théâtre de la Cité. This theatre solo for the actress Els Deceukelier was a homage to Duchamp, a logic which continues here with the homage to Andy Warhol in the installation L'ange de la mort. The "live" version of this homage is presented at the Printemps de septembre.

Performances produced by the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique, Toulouse.