From boomdesign: “With five room-filling sculptural tableaus, fabre created a mythical world of horror, beauty, and metamorphosis that was hardly conceivable inconventional artistic terms and constantly alternated between reality and dream. the installation followed the layout of the human body. Five exhibition levels with metaphoric titles borrowed from different zones of the body - starting with the feet in the basement and ending with the brain on the upper level. Courtesy of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna E Contemporaneadi bergamo (gamec), Studio Fabre, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the support of Linda and Guy Pieters, Jan Fabre will be installing his five sculptural tableaus at the 53rd Venice Biennale, showing it to a broad international art audience.” Read the official invitation.
• May 13, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: art sculptur body human anatomy brain