Jan Fabre
Maskers
When
2017
Jan Fabre (Belgian, b.1958) has spent the past 40 years creating works in performance art, at the theater as playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer, and using visual arts. A graduate of the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts, as well as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Fabre received early recognition through his performance art. His themes include ancient rituals, beauty, lust, and violence. Between 1976 and 1980, the artist focused on theater, completing his first scripts. In 1986, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre Theatre Company was established. In the 1980s, his work shifted toward an investigation of the body in its physiological, intellectual and symbolic aspects and he endeavours to unlock the secret of ‘beauty’ as well as investigate the interchange between art and science, man and animal, life and death. Fabre seems to be deeply inspired not only by he philosophy, anthropology, and even spirituality which govern him in pursuing imagination always one step further.
Jan Fabre
The Liberty of Compassion
2019
Coral, pigment, polyamide
113 x 102 x ø 39,5 cm
Jan Fabre
The Purity of Mercy
2019
Coral, pigment, polyamide
h. 110 cm
Jan Fabre
Le garçon qui porte la lune et les étoiles sur sa tête
2019
Wax, wood, metal
178,5 x 41,2 x ø 79 cm
Installation view at Palazzo Merulana, Rome
Jan Fabre
Brain With Angel Wings
2018
Belgian Black marble
32 x 49 x 52 cm
Jan Fabre
Do we feel with our brain and think with our heart?
2013
Silicone, paint, fabric, hair, polymer
34,5 x 29 x 24 cm
Jan Fabre
The artist’s brain measuring his own mirror neurons
2014
White Carrara marble
17,8 x 18,6 x 14,8 cm
base 6 x 27 x 27 cm
Jan Fabre
Do we feel with our brain and think with our heart?
2012
HB pencil and color pencil on paper
14 x 8,2 cm
Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre Merciful Dream (Pietà V)
2011
White Carrara marble
90 x 195 x 110 cm
base 270 x 40 x 180 cm
Jan Fabre
Negro With Crows
2011
Jewel beetle wing-cases on wood
229 x 176 x 8 cm
Jan Fabre
Loterie Coloniale
2011
Jewel beetle wing-cases on wood
229 x 176 x 8 cm
Jan Fabre
Chapter XVII
2010
Bronzo lucido
100 x 25 x 26 cm
Jan Fabre
Chapter XI
2010
Wax
51,5 x 37,2 cm
Jan Fabre
Skull
2010
Beetle shells, polymers, stuffed bird
28 x 23 x 19 cm
Jan Fabre
Homage to Jacques Mesrine (Buste II)
2008
Wax, metal, granite
55 x 50 x 60 cm
Jan Fabre
The Escape of the artist II
2008
HB pencil, crayons on photographic paper
13,3 x 9,45 cm
Jan Fabre
The Escape of the artist II
2008
HB pencil, crayons on photographic paper
13,3 x 9,45 cm
Jan Fabre
Art kept me out of jail (VIII)
2008
Photograph
90 x 60 cm
Jan Fabre
Homage to Stephen Hawking
2007
Silicone, metal, rubber
16 x 28 x 28 cm
Jan Fabre
I messageri decapitati della morte / The Messengers Beheaded by Death
2006
Feathers, latex, glass, glue, linen and lace, wood
Oehoe (Bubo bubo): 33 x 67 x 67 cm;
Ransuil (Asio otus): 36 x 67 x 57 cm;
Ruigpootuil (Aegolius funereus): 33 x 51 x 47 cm;
Velduil (Asio flammeus): 34 x 47 x 47 cm
base 90 x 150 x 450 cm
Jan Fabre
I messageri decapitati della morte/ The Messengers Beheaded by Death
2006
Feathers, latex, glass, glue, linen and lace, wood
Ruigpootuil (Aegolius funereus)
33 x 51 x 47 cm
Jan Fabre
I cervelli di mia madre e di mio padre
2006
Silicon rubber, silicon oil, pigments
23 x 15 x 21 cm
Jan Fabre
Tribute to Jean-Henry Fabre
2004
Jewel beetle wings on plaster
47 x 33 x 68 cm
Jan Fabre
Searching for utopia
2003
Silicon bronze
500 x 700 x 300 cm
Installation view at Nieuwport beach
Jan Fabre
Ball of dung beetle
2001
Wing cases of buprestids, mattress, bones, Angela’s hair
Jan Fabre
The man who measures the clouds
1998
Silicon bronze
285 x 120 x 80 cm
base 40 x 80 cm
Jan Fabre
Grave of the unknown computer
1993
Bic-ink on wood
70x40x7 cm (x300)
Jan Fabre
Kunstenaarskelder met geheime ruimtes voor cocons
1992
Cement, wood, glass, paint tubes, grease pencil, textile, rags, batteries
26×52,5×31,5 cm
Jan Fabre
Tivoli
1990
Bic ballpoint pen on serigraph
23,3 x 17,7 cm / framed: 116 x 91 cm
Jan Fabre
Tivoli
1990
Cibachrome
Each 27 x 20 cm
Framed dimensions: 48,5 x 38,5 cm
Edition 2/2
Jan Fabre
Swords, Crosses and Daggers II
1989
Bic ballpoint pen on paper
238 x 164 x 4,5 cm
Jan Fabre
One Turkish Scimitar
1987
Bic ballpoint pen on paper
238 x 164 x 4,5 cm
Jan Fabre
Northern Slope, Malung La (Tibet)
1989
From the series Mountain tops
Ballpoint pen on black-and-white photo
20 x 29 cm / framed 42,5 x 53 cm
Jan Fabre
Alrlberg, Alps, Austria
1989
From the series Mountain tops
Ballpoint pen on black-and-white photo
20 x 29 cm / framed 53 x 42,5 cm
Jan Fabre
Hey, what a funny craziness!
1988
Wood, plastic, polyester, glass, synthetic grass, textile and bark
43 x 98 x 41 cm
Jan Fabre
ILAD III
1987-2015
Ektachrome, glass, wood, electronics
5,6 x 4,1 cm / framed 27 x 20 cm
Jan Fabre
ILAD VII
1987-2015
Ektachrome, glass, wood, electronics
5,6 x 4,1 cm / framed 27 x 20 cm
Jan Fabre
Het denken van het verbodene / Thinking the Forbidden
1986
Bic ballpoint pen on paper
29,7 x 21 cm / framed 58,3 x 42,5 cm
Jan Fabre
Green Ants
1979
Ink and color pencil on paper
20 x 13,5 cm
Jan Fabre
The Belgium Ants of Binche
1979
Ink and color pencil on paper
20 x 13,5 cm
Jan Fabre
From Cradle to Grave
1979
Ink and color pencil on paper
20 x 13,5 cm
Jan Fabre
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2017
Jan Fabre
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2015
Jan Fabre
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2014
Group show
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2012
Jan Fabre
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2011
Jan Fabre
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2009