Jan Fabre brings an exhibition on the theme of the brain to Rome

From October 11, 2019 to February 9, 2020, an exhibition dedicated to Jan Fabre (Antwerp, 1958), The Rhythm of the Brain, will be on view in Rome at Palazzo Merulana.

Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Melania Rossi, the exhibition will display more than thirty works by the Belgian artist, including bronze and wax sculptures, drawings and film-performances, many of which have never been exhibited in Italy and some made especially for this occasion.

The exhibition will be divided into two chapters: one will be a direct dialogue with the permanent collection and its exhibition itinerary, the other will focus on a selection of the artist’s works on the theme of the brain and the relationship between art and science.

Both the artist and curators have found poetic links between Fabre’s works and works by De Chirico, Donghi, Capogrossi, Janni, Casorati, and Cambellotti: they share a common invitation to reflect on art, imagination, and artists’ thinking.

The exhibition opens with To Wear One ’s Brain On One’s Head (2018) and De blikopener (2017), bronze sculptures that are self-portraits of the artist himself, in which he balances his brain on his head and holds a can opener.

Jan Fabre, who has been active for 40 years, is considered one of the most innovative artists in international contemporary art. Already in 2018, the Maeght Foundation proposed a selection of his works dedicated to the brain, entitled Ma nation, l’imagination. However, research on the brain, which Fabre calls “the sexiest part of the body,” had begun many years earlier with Anthropology of a Planet (Venice 2007), From the Cellar to the Attic, from the Feet to the Brain (Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz 2008; Arsenale novissimo, Venice 2009) and Pietas (Nuova scuola grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia, Venice 2011).

For info: www.palazzomerulana.it

Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 8 euros for under 27 and over 65. Free for under 7 years old.

Jan Fabre brings an exhibition on the theme of the brain to Rome

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