Jan Fabre (born 1958, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian The Kingdom of Belgium (pronounced /ˈbɛldʒəm/ , BEL-jəm) is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi) and has a population of about 10.7 multidisciplinary artist The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business, playwright A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors. They may also be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance, stage director A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realising, choreographer The term choreography first appeared in the American English dictionary in the 1950s. Prior to this, movie credits used various terms to mean choreography, such as "ensembles staged by" and "dances staged by" and designer A designer is a person who designs or creates something. Perhaps the broadest definition is that provided by psychologist Herbert Simon: 'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.' .
He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 1976 and 1980 he wrote his first scripts for the theatre and made his debut performances.
Established in 1986, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is a theatre company with extensive international operations, with its home base in Antwerp, Belgium.
From 1980 he began his career as a stage director and stage designer:
- Theater geschreven met een K is een kater (1980),
- Het is theater zoals te verwachten en te voorzien was ("It is Theatre as to be Expected and Foreseen", 1982),
- De macht der theaterlijke dwaasheden ("The power of theatrical madness", Biënnale Venice 1984),
- Das Glas im Kopf wird vom Glas (1987),
- Prometheus In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of human-kind known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day Landschaft’ (1988),
- Das Interview das stirbt... (1989),
- Der Palast um vier Uhr morgens..., A.G. (1989),
- Die Reinkarnation Gottes (1989),
- Das Glas im Kopf wird vom Glas (1990),
- The Sound of one hand clapping (1990),
- Sweet Temptations (1991),
- She was and she is, even (1991),
- Wie spreekt mijn gedachte ... (1992),
- Silent Screams, Difficult Dreams(1992),
- Vervalsing zoals ze is, onvervalst (1992),
- Da un’altra faccia del tempo (1993),
- Quando la terra si rimette in movimento (1995),
- Three Dance-solos (1995),
- A dead normal woman(1995),
- Universal Copyrights 1 & 9 (1995),
- De keizer van het verlies (1996),
- The very seat of honour (1997),
- Body, Body on the wall (1997),
- Glowing Icons (1997),
- The Pick-wick-man (1997),
- Ik ben jaloers op elke zee…(1997),
- The fin comes a little bit earlier this siècle (But business as usual)(1998),
- Het nut van de nacht (1999),
- As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul (2000),
- My movements are alone like streetdogs (2000),
- Je suis Sang (conte de fées médiéval) (2001),
- Het zwanenmeer (2002),
- Swanlake (2002),
- Parrots & guinea pigs (2002),
- Je suis sang(2003),
- Angel of death (2003),
- Tannhäuser (co-production)' (2004)
- Elle était et elle est, meme (2004),
- Etant donnés (2004),
- Quando L'Uomo principale è una donna (2004),
- The crying body (2004),
- The King of Plagiarism (2005),
- History of Tears (2005),
- I am a Mistake (2007),
- Requiem für eine Metamorphose (2007),
- Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day (2008),
- Orgy of Tolerance (2009).
Fabre is famous for his Bic-art (ballpoint drawings). In 1990, he covered an entire building with ballpoint drawings.
He explores the relationships between drawing and sculpture. He also makes sculptures in bronze (among them The man who measures the clouds and Searching for Utopia Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, which is taken from Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional) and with beetles.
His decoration of the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels Heaven of Delight is widely praised. In 2004 he erected Totem, a giant bug stuck on a 7 foot steel needle, on the Ladeuzeplein in Leuven Leuven (Dutch, pronounced [ˈløːvə] (help·info); French: Louvain, often used in English, German: Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre.
In 2008, Jan Fabre's The Angel of Metamorphosis exhibition was on display at the Louvre Museum.
External links
- Jan Fabre Troubleyn
- Jan Fabre Angelos
- Jan Fabre on the 52nd Biennale of Venice
- The case of Jan Fabre
- Jan Fabre and Lisbeth Gruwez photos from Quando L'Uomo principale è una donna
- Jan Fabre Artnet Page
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