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GALERY 2 10.11.- 5.12.99 Jan Fabre (Belgium) drawing, sculpture Curators: Marek Gozdziewski, Tijs Visser Born in Antwerp in 1958, Jan Fabre is a drawer, sculptor, playwright and stage (drama and opera) director, choreographer and stage designer of European renown. He studied in the Decorative Arts Institute and Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In his early years, he was a decorator, set and costume designer; in 1976-81, active in the field of performance art. At the time he too wrote a series of plays. His intellectual furnishing includes an interest in insects - inherited from a grand-grandfather, a renowned entomologist. Observing the microcosm of insects has become a source of inspiration for Fabre, as was the case with the 'hour of the blue' concept, again, the great-grandpa's (night giving up the space to the daylight). A series of giant drawings has thus been conceived, the material being artificial silk, under the title of Hour of the Blue. Fabre's driving force is intuition, and, instinct. He is much inspired by dreams, too. Thousands of his drawings are meant to compose a sort of a diary. Drawing is for him the primary field of artistic research, as he himself says, 'the simplest way to make out a magical rug of a[n ordinary] square. Or, to create a heavenly body out of an insect. In drawing, anything is possible' (interviewed by Jan Hoet). Insects are a propelling force behind Jan Fabre's visual as well as theatrical work.
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