Jan Fabre
Sculptures, drawings and videos, all part of Fabre’s study of the relationship between art and science, will be on exhibit.
What is beauty? Who is an artist? How do neurons respond to classical art and what, instead, happens if viewing a work of contemporary art? This and many other questions are the focus of a series of works in which Fabre is spurred into examining the physiological processes which govern artistic creation and enjoyment.
The body is central to Fabre’s artistic universe and this exhibit gathers a nucleus of works which delve into the nature of the brain, defined by the artist as “the sexiest part of the human body”.
There will also be a showing of the video Do we feel with our brain and think with our heart?, a film-performance in which Fabre engages in a dialogue with Giacomo Rizzolatti, the neuroscientist who discovered mirror neurons, which are fundamental in explaining empathy between individuals. The artist creates surprising, sensual and playful associations between the symbols of his art and the objects used in Rizzolatti’s experiments, in a sort of philosophical-aesthetic speculation which explores the circularity between understanding and pleasure and between sensation, emotion and cognition.