Belgian artist Jan Fabre, who was tried on charges of violence, harassment, sexual harassment and vulgarity at work by the dancers of his troupe who denounced his actions in an open letter in 2018, was sentenced by an 18-month prison sentence to Antwerp.
During the trial, the plaintiffs described him Jan Fabre as a tyrannical man, who systematically humiliated the dancers and in some cases practiced sexual blackmail against them. The prosecutor proposed the imposition of a 3-year prison sentence, but the court ruled that some of the offenses were statute-barred, as the events concerned the period 2002-2018, while rejecting the charges of six of the eleven reported victims.
Jan Fabre is an artist, playwright, director, choreographer and designer. He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He wrote his first screenplays for the theater between 1976 and 1980 and also made his first solo performances.
On October 26, 2012, several media outlets reported that during a shoot at Antwerp City Hall for an upcoming film, live cats were thrown into the air. Animal welfare executive chairman Luc Bungeneers said he had a meeting with his party president when he heard cats howling. “To my horror, we discovered that cats were being attacked in the name of art,” Bungeneers said. Later that day, Fabre claimed that all the cats were in good health and that it was an NVA conspiracy. Fabre also received 20,000 emails criticizing his action. He had also been attacked seven times by men carrying sticks while jogging in the park and forced to sleep in a different location each night. Interest of Animals also complained about Fabre’s controversial act.
Then, in 2016, one broke out huge controversy about his plan to turn the big one Greek art festivals to “a tribute to Belgium” and to dedicate eight of the festival’s ten productions to those from his homeland.
In October 2016, the Russian State Hermitage Museum hosted a Fabre exhibition that drew rave reviews from visitors and institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church. Dead animals in strange poses caused outcry among Russian social media users who launched a campaign with the hashtag # позорэрмитажу, or “Shame on you, Hermitage”. The number of posts on Instagram in this way reached almost 10,000 by the end of November. The museum then organized an event to meet the public and explain the exhibition after refusing to stop the exhibition, which was to last until April 2017. The artist repeatedly claimed that the animals used were already dead and had found himself on the street and denied any accusations by critics of cruelty and sadism.
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