Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre was born 1958 in Antwerp. After completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Institute for Decorative Arts in Antwerp, Fabre launched his career in the late 1970s with provocative “actions” and “private performances”. A shining star of the Flemish new wave in the 1980s, he is above all a skilled draftsman, visual artist and designer, but also stages unusually free and unrestrained performance pieces, placing the body at the heart of his approach.
His intellectual furnishing includes an interest in insects - inherited from a grand-grandfather, a renowned entomologist. Observing the microcosm of insects has become a source of inspiration for Fabre. His driving force is intuition and instinct, as well as an inspiration by dreams. Thousands of his drawings are meant to compose a sort of a diary.
His intellectual furnishing includes an interest in insects - inherited from a grand-grandfather, a renowned entomologist. Observing the microcosm of insects has become a source of inspiration for Fabre. His driving force is intuition and instinct, as well as an inspiration by dreams. Thousands of his drawings are meant to compose a sort of a diary.