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    "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

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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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