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The man who measures the clouds
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The man who measures the clouds
Spatial Concept, Waits
Without title
Dark Brother
Venus of the rags
Without title
Beuys by Warhol
Without title
Vibrating texture
Invisible
Dark Prussian – Blue Portal IV
Ave Ovo
The sea does not wet Naples
Axis / Offset
Without title
The love
Scribbles
My cinema
Dilemma
Without title
"Passage of Victory"

The man who measures the clouds

Jan Fabre

Displayed in:

Madre Museum

Madre Museum

Via Settembrini (Palazzo Donnaregina) , 79, Naples

Opening soon: at 10:00

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The man who measures the clouds (1998) is rearranged on the terrace of the Madre museum, curated by Laura Trisorio, Melania Rossi and Andrea Viliani as part of the Per_forming a collection project, and presented at the same time as the Sensitive encounters project at the Capodimonte Museum, curated by Sylvain Bellenger and Laura Trisorio. The work is inspired by the statement that the ornithologist Robert Stroud made at the moment of his release from Alcatraz prison, when he declared that from now on he would be dedicated to measuring the clouds. In addition to the quotation, which places the work in a defined historical and scientific context, in this case the use of the self-portrait has a further biographical reference, as the work is a tribute to the younger brother of the artist, a dreamer died prematurely. The staging of a memorial absence that imposes itself as a sculptural presence becomes the metaphorical double of both the represented personalities, whose union generates an inter-individual energy that becomes vital movement, despite the static nature of the sculptural form. Also expressing the feeling of planning the impossible (precisely the attempt to measure a changeable and inconstant entity like clouds), Fabre reflects on the very status of the artist's research, assimilated to the scientist's claim to go beyond the human limit of knowledge. As an artist and researcher Fabre constantly tries, in effect, to "measure the clouds", admitting and declaring with his work that the tension towards knowledge has insurmountable limits which, however, it is possible to approach and tackle precisely through experimentation, in which express the inexpressible without betraying, as the artist himself declares, the intrinsic and foundational human and universal beauty.
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Title: The man who measures the clouds

Author: Jan Fabre

Date: 1988 - 2016

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Displayed in: Madre Museum

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