Jan Fabre’s life is his work; his existence as a person is inextricably linked to this vital, wild, fertile excitement and constant intensity, whereby life and work are wholly inseparable. In this sense, Jan Fabre appears to be one of the last “universal artists” who unite the wonderous, rational utopia of transparent Renaissance perfection with the powerful vitality of the irrational, contradictory, uncontrollable processes of the deep psychic structures of human beings. Life and work, art, theater, solitary hours of creation in the art studio, and running a theater group—all of this makes up the artist and person Jan Fabre, whose new marble sculptures and “working drawings”—curated by Dr. Lóránd Hegyi—are on show for the very first time at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art.
Artist
Jan Fabre (BE)Lóránd Hegyi
Lóránd Hegyi is one of the foremost European curators and art historians. He is currently the director of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole. From 1990–2001 he directed the museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien and was artistic adviser and later artistic director of the PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, in Naples (2002–2006). Hegyi was co-curator of the Venice Biennale in 1993, artistic director of the Sculpture Triennial of Stuttgart in 1995 and curator of the Valencia Biennale in 2003. Besides his curatorial activity he wrote numerous books and articles about contemporary art and cultural criticism, social and political context of artistic praxis in Central and Eastern Europe as well as about the center and periphery discourse.
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