Please, please, please, if any of you can find photos of this exhibit, send them to me. The museum's web page doesn't mention it.
Jan Fabre's Temples of Meat exhibition will only be on display for three days - until it goes off, reports De Morgen. The exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in Ghent, includes a coat made of steaks and a tent of bacon with sleeping bags of steak.
Fabre said: "Meat is a very erotic material. A lot of my work is about the cult of decay and death. I also loved to create something that will be destroyed after three days. It's a lesson in modesty for every artist who confesses his love for eternity."
Fabre said he worked through the night with his assistants to turn 100kg of steak, 15kg of minced meat and a few kilometers of Parma bacon into art. It's not the first time he has worked with meat. In 2000, he covered the columns of the university aula in Ghent with pieces of bacon.
A few kilometers of Parma bacon. A bacon tent with steak sleeping bags. Had I known this was possible, I'd have opened a museum already. Fabre makes this guy look like a rank amateur.
TrackBackI relayed your request to alt.slack* ( http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/browse_frm/thread/003e315de4a3ef32/ ) and so far, no pix of that particular show, tho there is a link to an interview from 2004.
* We talk about bacon a LOT ...
Posted by: just john at March 27, 2006 12:15 PMI'll go with "abomination" for 500.
Healthy bacon?? What were they thinking? Don't they get the POINT?
Posted by: just john at March 27, 2006 02:18 PMKinda like the Western version of those Tibetan manadalas made of yak butter and sand - made and then destroyed. Except these have a higher conspicuous consumption quotient.
Posted by: TokyoTom at March 29, 2006 03:11 AM