Jan Fabre - Biography
Jan Fabre (born 1958, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer. He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 1976 and 1980 he wrote his first scripts for the theatre and made his debut performances. Established in 1986, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is a theatre company with extensive international operations, with its home base in Antwerp, Belgium.
Fabre is famous for his Bic-art (ballpoint drawings). In 1990, he covered an entire building with ballpoint drawings. He explores the relationships between drawing and sculpture. He also makes sculptures in bronze (among them The man who measures the clouds and Searching for Utopia) and with beetles.
His decoration of the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels, Heaven of Delight, is widely praised. In 2004 he erected Totem, a giant bug stuck on a 7 foot steel needle, on the Ladeuzeplein in Leuven. In 2008, Jan Fabre's The Angel of Metamorphosis exhibition was on display at the Louvre Museum.
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(FR) Le Pique-sève, 2015
Mixture of jewel beetle wing-cases, polymers, stuffed bird
Dim.: 100 x 18 x 23 cm
Solo Exhibition in Den Bosch
Noordbrabants Museum / June 3 – Sept. 18, 2016
(FR) Détail - Le Pique-sève, 2015
Epées, croix et dagues VI.
Swords, crosses and Daggers VI.
Bic ballpoint pen on paper.
Signed and dated
Dimensions: 218 × 150 cm
Lit. : Jan Fabre The years of the Hour Blue, Drawings and sculptures 1977 – 1992
Blauwe bic op hout.
Afm.: 73h x 31b x 31d cm
Blauwe bic op hout.
Afm.: 73h x 31b x 31d cm