JAN FABRE. SACRUM CEREBRUM
Start date: 07/11/2015
End date: 08/01/2016
Location: Art Bärtschi & Die, Genève
Solo Exhibition
Art Bärtschi & Cie is pleased to present Sacrum Cerebrum, a new solo exhibition where Jan Fabrewill show his latest white marble sculptures and works on paper.
Pursuing his research into the functioning of the brain – a subject he has studied for over 10 years – the artist continues to explore the poetic possibilities of the organ as the centre of emotions, empathy and compassion, with the thirteen sculptures created especially for this exhibition. Meticulously designed and strikingly immaculate, Jan Fabre brings a sacred character to the brain through combining it with rich Christian symbolism to create startling associations. He reclaims holy imagery and transforms it with grace and beauty to create objects of desire. Staged in this way, the organs are exposed to the public in an iconoclastic vulnerability creating a dialogue between matter and spirit in a scenography that invites reflexion on human nature, religion, and the force of life and death. Confronted with this spectacular celebration of the human brain, the visitor is invited to admire the precision and fragility of the works but also to ponder on the different modes of thought, rational or not, in a world where the former clearly seems to override the latter.
INFORMATION
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Art Bärtschi & Die
24, rue du Vieux Billard
CH-1205 Genève
