BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST 54 Modem Men’s Modem NY /LA Spring Summer 2017 Covers by JAN FABRE 2016 Jan Fabre (1958, Antwerp) is a Belgian multidisciplinary contemporary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer. His innovative approach as a visual artist, theatre maker and author he created highly personal world with its own rules and laws, as well as its own characters, symbols, and recurring motifs. Fabre’s language involves a variety of materials and is situated in a world of his own, populated by physical, erotic and spiritual bodies in a balance between the opposites that define natural existence. Metamorphosis is a key concept in any approach to Jan Fabre ’s body of thought, in which human and animal life are in constant interaction. Fabre received his diploma from the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp . His first scripts and performances was presented in mid-to-end 1970’s. Fabre’s most famous project is “ The Bic-Art Room” (1980), an alternative to “Big” art. Fabre researched the relationships between drawing and sculpturing in his bronze sculptures (among them: “Searching for Utopia”). His decoration of the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels , titled Heaven of Delight (made out of one million six hundred thousand jewel-scarab wing cases), was widely praised. In 2004 he erected Totem, a giant bug stuck on a 70-foot steel needle, on the Ladeuzeplein in Leuven. In 2008, Fabre’s The Angel of Metamorphosis exhibition at the Louvre Museum . Jan Fabre was invited to Saint Petersburg to create a large-scale exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in 2016. In 2017 MUS.E and the City of Florence promoted one of his most complex exhibitions titled “ JA N FABRE. SPIRITUAL GUARDS