Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre (1958 Antwerp, Belgium) is a Flemish theater director, choreographer and visual artist.
According to Jan Fabre his productions and performances come from a romantic desire to form a completely idiosyncratic worldview.
Fabre is among other famous for his Bic-art (ballpoint drawings).
Jan Fabre describes his own as a tribute “to the imagination of the liars”. All of his works constitute a kind of diary.
1992 – In the monologue “Forgery as it is, pure”, a female model dialogues in an image-rich and repetitive language with men’s images of herself. What is real? What is false?
The decay of one copy leads to the creation of an other, which again will rot with time. In this “soft beaten century’ the boundary between original and model is blurred. What comes first: the counterfeiting or the original?
Doubling is here focused on forgery. The contradiction between me and the other becomes a contrast between true and false, real and unreal, original and model, authenticity and simulation.
In 2002, commissioned by Queen Paola of Belgium he installs “Heaven of Delight” in the Royal Palace of Brussels, a reference to “The Garden of Lust” by Hieronymus Bosch.
The ceiling of the grand mirror room and a large chandelier were fully plastered with one and a half million green-blue glittering shields of scarabs.
Photos by Jan Fabre | ANP
