Alternative Humanities
29 April – 31 August 2010
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Left: Funakoshi Katsura By the Water, deep in the forest 2009 Private collection
© Katsura Funakoshi Photo: Watanabe Osamu
Right: Jan Fabre Ik laat mezelf leeglopen (dwerg) (I let myself deflate (dwarf)) 2007
AD Gallery, Athens Painting: Rogier van der Weyden (d’après), Philip the Good,
Duke of Burgundy (1396-1467) Musée du Louvre, département des Peintures, MI 818.
© Angelos / Jan Fabre Photo Attilio Maranzano
Jan Fabre, who uses himself as a motif and insects and other organic elements as materials to create works that overturn views of life and death, and Funakoshi Katsura, who carves transcendental human figures from camphor wood that stare silently at nothingness. This exhibition presents some 170 works by the two artists, together with historical works representing religious concepts from their respective backgrounds (Flemish religious paintings and images of the Kannon bodhisattva). Juxtaposed like mirrors set against each other, how do the products of two sculptural practices – one Belgian, the other Japanese – alien to one another, reflect the essence of the investigations into the relationships between mind and body, and life and death, that they represent and that form their point of contact?
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