Jan fabre
dal 7/11/2008 al 4/12/2008
Segnalato da
7/11/2008
Jan fabre
Galleria Espacio Minimo, Madrid
The escape of the artist
Only a few months after closing the impressive exhibition at the Louvre titled Jan Fabre. L’Ange de la métamorphose, Belgian
artist JAN FABRE opens his third solo-show at Espacio Minimo Gallery titled The Escape of the Artist. This show also
coincides with his entirely new exhibition titled From the Cellar to the Attic From the Feet to the Brain at the Bregenz Kunsthaus
in Austria.
JAN FABRE ́s exhibition is centred around a series of 8 photographs taken during his performance at the Louvre, titled
Homage to Jacques Mesrine (Art Kept Me Out of Jail). Louvre 2008. The show also includes a disquieting sculpture, a new
series of drawings, and his latest video work, Art kept me out of jail/ homage to Jacques Mesrine, which also documents the
performance at the Louvre.
The subject of the photographs and the performance are the figure of the famous thief, smuggler, murderer, and above all
fugitive Jacques Mesrine, who came to be considered Public Enemy number one of France and was known to the press and
public as The Man of a Hundred Faces. Jacques Mesrine became famous, apart from his other crimes, for his incredible and
unexplainable escapes.
Galleria Espacio Minimo
Doctor Fourquet, 17 - Madrid