Art book Jan Fabre Chalcosoma small bronzes 2006-2012

Hardcover
207 pages, ENG. edition
310 x 240 x 25 mm,
New, not in foil. Illustrated in color. Minor damage at 2 corners. See pictures
published by Guy Pieters Gallery / Pandora Publishers
ISBN 978905325346513.

This Chalcosoma exhibition shows a series of small bronzes Jan Fabre made between 2006 and 2012. In these new works Fabre explores the multiformity of life and death: he plants a laurel between the wing-cases of a beetle, mounts a compass in a skull, and lets a crust of drawing pins grow over a self-portrait. Some of the works are completely new creations, while others refer to earlier elements in his oeuvre. Their diversity makes them a sampler of the themes that dominate Fabre's oeuvre. A network of associations unfolds between the various sculptures, one in which the viewer can wander endlessly.  I also have the French version available