Jan Fabre at Kunsthaus Bregenz

Saturday, 27 September 2008 18:50

Bregenz, Austria - For the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jan Fabre is staging his first large-scale museum exhibition in Austria. With new room-filling sculptural tableaus on five exhibition floors, Fabre creates a fascinating and mythical world of horror, beauty, and metamorphosis that is hardly conceivable in conventional artistic terms and constantly alternates between reality and dream. In its mode of presentation the exhibition follows the form of the human body, in which in metaphorical harmony with the different anatomical zones – starting with the feet on the ground floor and ending with the brain on the upper floor – the five exhibition floors form a gesamtkunstwerk of tremendous and mysterious complexity. On exhibit 27 September until 25 January, 2009.

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. Fabre has taken part in such major international exhibitions as the Venice Biennale (1984, 1990, 2003 and 2007), documenta in Kassel (1987 and 1992), the Sao Paolo Biennale (1991), the Lyon Biennale (2000), the Valencia Biennale (2001) and the Istanbul Biennale (1992 and 2001). In 2008 he will have a show at the Louvre in Paris.

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