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Item: Action: The Man Measuring the Clouds
1997-2000
Performance, various.
Materials:
Diverse locaties
Diverse tijdspannes
Als hommage aan zijn dode tweelingbroer, Emile Fabre, probeert de kunstenaar het onmetelijke te meten, de wolken. De actie, en later bronzen sculptuur, is gebaseerd op de uitspraak van de gevangene en ornitholoog Robert Stroud bij zijn vrijlating: “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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The Man Measuring the Clo...
Jan Fabre, The Man Measuring the Clouds, 1998. Drawing, hb pencil on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm.
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The Man Measuring the Clo...
Jan Fabre, The Man Measuring the Clouds (Model for the roof of deSingel and the S.M.A.K.) , 1998. Prototype, wood, textile, wax, stone, clay and cement, 25 x 20.5 x 20 com .



