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    „Es gibt keine Tyranneien, die nicht versuchen, die Kunst einzuschränken, weil sie die Macht der Kunst sehen. Kunst kann der Welt Dinge sagen, die sonst nicht geteilt werden können. Kunst vermittelt Gefühle.“

    - Volodymyr Selenskyj, Präsident der Ukraine

    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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