Jan Fabre

Incontri sensibili. Jan Fabre – Naturalia e Mirabilia

July 1 — October 22, 2017

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples

At the Capodimonte Museum, within the context of the Incontri sensibili cycle, the show Jan Fabre. Naturalia e Mirabilia curated by Sylvain Bellenger and Laura Trisorio will be inaugurated. Two of Jan Fabre’s works made entirely of beetle shells (Ancient Egyptian sacred animal, a symbol of immortality), a distinctive and recurring element in his oeuvre, are to be situated in a wunderkammer in dialogue with several naturalia and artificialia rarities, collected by the Farnese between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  The selection of “wonders”, presented in modern glass cabinets, is composed of art objects in rock crystal, bronze, ivory, amber and in unusual, bizarre materials such as rhinoceros horn, deer antler and coconut in addition to manmade objects from explored lands.