Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Homo Fabre in the Museum of Schone Kunsten in Antwerp

The idea of the exhibition was to create a different way to experience the Old Masters in combination with contemporary art and the vision of Jan Fabre.

The first piece I walked into - below - actually shocked me a bit. I was not paying attention, turned around and thought: my god! there is a guy standing with his face pushed against a painting! Then I noticed the blood and realized it was art...

The second piece shown here, was situated in a room with dim light and dead animals hanging from the ceiling over butter (imagine the butter lying right under the animal on the floor).

The long dining table set up with the heads of owls made quite an impression. It gave me the idea of chopped of human heads which were put on plates in a (distant?) past to shock people.

The last piece shown here was the body of a man made up from thumbtacks.
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