Deweer Art Gallery is pleased to announce the eighth solo show by Jan Fabre at the gallery, "Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?", an exhibition with almost exclusively new works. It will be the artists first show after the opening of his show at the Louvre.
 Fabre has not been out of the picture for the last couple of years. The "Homo Fabre" series of events in 2006 in Antwerp, his work at the festival d'Avignon as artistic director and his upcoming exhibition at the Louvre, for which the artist was given carte blanche in the Richelieu wing of the museum, are just some recent highlights in a career that is hardly equalled by any other contemporary artist from the Belgian scene. 
A remarkable element in this career, which has become more evident since widespread recognition enabled the artist even more to achieve this goal, is Fabre's constant cross-over between theatre and visual arts, between different genres within both, and between the visual arts of old and modern traditions and his own work.

With for example "Battlefields and Beekeepers", "Umbraculum", "A Meeting (with Ilya Kabakov)" and more recently "Turtles and Landscapes", Deweer Art Gallery has documented every major thematical step Fabre took in the development of his work, often while also showing less known aspects or unknown works.
 Some models in the exhibition at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels in 2006, "Kijkdozen en Denkmodellen", already hinted at Fabre's preoccupation with the brains. As the next form of investigation into the poetical possibilities of the body - a leading thread within his oeuvre, the theme of the brains is something Fabre recently continued to explore through drawings, models, and a video of a conversation with the American biologist Edgar O. Wilson, a personal hero of the artist.
 The video will be part of the exhibition in the upper hall, as well as new models and drawings. The exhibition hall downstairs will be taken up by a monumental installation.