Jan Fabre

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Jan Fabre (right) in conversation with Jörg Schellmann

Jan Fabre (born December 14, 1958 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian painter , playwright , director and choreographer .

Life

Fabre's father was a biologist and worked as an urban gardener in Antwerp. He took him for walks through the old town and was shown the sculptures and museums. After training as a window dresser, Jan studied at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Sierkunsten en Ambachten (Municipal Institute for Arts and Crafts), Antwerp, and at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (Royal Art Academy), Antwerp. Since 1979 he has appeared in public with numerous exhibitions, solo performances and theater spectacles. In his drawings , which he created with blue hatching from BIC ballpoint pens , he developed his own vocabulary of forms, whereby a green shimmering beetle shell was a recurring motif.

The stage work developed through his painting, in which he was initially an author , actor , director, stage and lighting designer at the same time, he developed into a cross-genre event between dance, theater and performance. His work is "[...] ideally suited as an example to describe the development towards the performative character of theater." In them, pain and the risk of injury are "... through excessive repetition and acceleration, which the dancers up to physical exhaustion drift, made a physical experience. "

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Fabre has produced more than thirty dance, theater and opera productions (as of 2008). His first play "Theater geschreven met een K is een hangover" (Theater written with a 'K' is a hangover) was founded in 1980, Antwerp in Ankerrui Theater premiered . His stage work first received international attention in 1982 with the eight-hour performance “Het is theater zoals te verwachten en te voorzien was” (It is theater as to be expected and foreseen) (first performance: Stalker, Brussels). In 1984 the 41st Venice Biennale opened in the Goldoni Theater with his theatrical spectacle “De macht der theaterlijke dwaasheden” (The Power of Theatrical Madness) .

In 1992 his poetically enigmatic opera “Silent Screams, Difficult Dreams” premiered at Documenta IX in the Staatstheater Kassel , in which his tendency towards a total work of art became apparent. For the 2007 Salzburg Festival , he developed “Requiem for a Metamorphosis”, a “theatrical funeral mass with actors, dancers and musicians”, in which he focused on the recurring theme of transformation through death. With his current performance Orgy of Tolerance (as of December 2009) Fabre has made guest appearances at various European venues, including the Muffathalle in Munich.

In 2012 Fabre created the autobiographical solo piece Drugs Kept Me Alive together with the American dancer Antony Rizzi as part of the events of the European Capital of Culture 2012 Maribor in Slovenia . This was performed in March 2013 at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main , Rizzi's place of work and residence. Fabre's series Tribute to Belgian Congo from 2013 depicts the brutal rule of Europeans and foreign companies in the Congo at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

In September 2018, 20 performers accused Fabre of sexual abuse in an open letter.

Fabre lives and works in Antwerp.

Exhibitions (selection)

Plays (selection)

  • 1980: Theater geschreven met een K is een hangover
  • 1982: Het is theater zoals te verwachten en te voorzien was
  • 1984: De makes the theaterlijke dwaasheden
  • 1987: The glass in the head becomes the glass
  • 1988: Prometheus Landscape
  • 1989: The interview that dies ...
  • 1989: The palace at four in the morning ... AG
  • 1989: The reincarnation of God
  • 1991: She was and she is, even
  • 1991: Sweet Temptations
  • 1991: who speaks my thoughts ...
  • 1992: Fake as it is, unadulterated
  • 1995: A family tragedy ... a theater text
  • 1995: A dead normal woman
  • 1996: The Emperor of Losses
  • 2001: The Salt Seller and the Fly
  • 2004: I am blood
  • 2005: The king of plagiarism
  • 2007: corpuscles, corpuscles on the wall ...
  • 2007: Requiem for a Metamorphosis
  • 2009: Orgy of Tolerance
  • 2010: The Servant of Beauty
  • 2010: Preparatio Mortis
  • 2011: Prometheus Landscape II
  • 2013: Tragedy of a Friendship
  • 2015: Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy

literature

  • Jan Fabre, Eckhard Schneider: Jan Fabre 1991–1992 , Kunstverein Hannover; Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki, Art Association, 1992, ISBN 3-926820-16-0
  • Documenta IX , Kassel, Edition Cantz, 1992, p. 139, ISBN 3-89322-381-9
  • Jan Fabre, Johann-Karl Schmidt, Ursula Zeller , Tijs Visser: Jan Fabre: Der Leimrutenmann (Jan Fabre: The Lime Twig man) , Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Cantz, 1995, ISBN 3-89322-751-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Jan Fabre, In: Belgisch Atelier: dertien kunstenaars over hun identiteit , Renaissance du livre, 2001, ISBN 2-87193-275-1 , p. XVI
  2. ↑ Christine Dössel: Theaterlexikon: Personen , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995, 2nd edition Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-423-03322-0
  3. ^ Ingrid Hentschel: Dionysus can not die: Theater in der Gegenwart , LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2008, p. 24, ISBN 978-3-8258-0910-2
  4. ↑ Gerald Siegmund : Absence: A Performative Aesthetic of Dance; William Forsythe, Jerome BEL, Xavier Le Roy, Meg Stuart , transcript Verlag, 2006, p. 214, ISBN 978-3-89942-478-2
  5. ↑ Performance "Orgy of Tolerance" on the Flandern.be website ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ About life in a soap bubble in: FAZ of March 21, 2013, page 40
  7. ↑ What is Victor Pinchuk for one? in FAZ from February 19, 2014, page 33
  8. ↑ Luisa Reisinger, Everything without coercion? , Zeit Online , March 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Fabre, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter, dramaturge and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp