Jan Fabre

1978

Performance, several days.
Materials:

Antwerp, Julius De Geyterstraat 205

After attending an exhibition in the Groeninge Museum in Bruges on Stigmata in the work of Flemish masters Jan Fabre becomes greatly attracted to the body as a subject. The physical shock of seeing for example Gerard David’s Judgement of Cambyses, urges him to penetrate his own body.

 

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