Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Jan Fabre

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    Action: The Man Measuring the Clouds, 1997-2000
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , various

    Different locations
    Duration: various 

    In homage to his dead twin brother Emile Fabre, the artist attempts to measure the immeasurable: the clouds. This action, which led to the famous bronze sculpture, is based on a quote from the prisoner and ornithologist Robert Stroud after his release: ‘I’m going to measure the clouds’.

     

    'I'm in a poetic hell!
    Today I installed a new work in a window display
    box in Offerandestraat (the only-free pedestrian
    shopping street in Antwerp, masses of pf people pass
    along it).
    I modelled a little man measuring the clouds, in clay.
    And above him hang clouds of expanded
    polystyrene.
    I painted it all light grey-blue.
    It is an offering, a tribute,
    to my dead brother, Emile Fabre'

    (Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 3 December 1978)

     

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