SHARING WITH ME

Going back into my archives made me remember just how many times I had seen Jan Fabre. In Brussels, in Lille, in Paris (the Louvre and the Templon Gallery) but I will never forget the incident of his throwing cats in the air and letting the fall - howling. Yet, here was another exhibition with exactly the same title as in Lille Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo (2011-2013). Tribute to Belgian Congo (2010-2013). For the latter you remember the horrors of King Leopold. A second exhibition at the Templon Gallery. This is a paragraph out of the Lille chapter (And Beetle Crawling all over you - Beaux Arts Lille, 7th November 2013). 

 Jérome Bosch is an emblematic painter too. On one side he carried out orders of churches and on the other he criticized the hypocritical sentiments of the bourgeoisie, frequently making them look burlesque or macabre. Conjugating these monsters then with the Belgium history of the Congo was  an interesting and symbolic way of showing how he saw this