"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

Jan Fabre

(c)photo: Angelos bvba
You have to take everything seriously but not tragically, 1976
Performance , 00:10:00

1976

Antwerp, Cultural Centre

In reaction to the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts the eighteen-year-old student Jan Fabre curates an exhibition of his own. At the opening he targets classic paintings, done by himself, as a poetic action against the academicism.