ENNLFRUKDE

    "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

    Back
    (c)Angelos bvba
    Burglaries & Street Fights, 1978
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , various duration

    Antwerp, docklands, Brasschaat & Schilde

    To collect material the young artist breaks into villas in the richer parts around Antwerp. He and his friends form the gang of Cartouche. The stolen goods are fenced to pay for art supplies or used in installations. 

    'I had to be active in different realities because at home there was no money to support going to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. So as a young guy I was raised on the street; to survive and to pay for all my materials for the Academy I went to work in the weekends in restaurants and also became a small resourceful gangster—breaking into villas and taking whatever valuables I could carry.' (source: Celant, G. Jan Fabre. Stigmata. Action & Performances 1976-2013. Skira, 2014, p.160)

    Back