Jan Fabre was born in 1958 in Antwerp, Belgium. He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts in Belgium ("Jan Fabre"). Along with the visual arts, he also excels in theater and writing and in all three he is known for pushing the limits and expanding the horizons on everything he designs and creates. Between 1976 and 1980 he began writing his first scripts and performed for the first time. Some of his well known performances are his 'money performance' which he burns money and writes the word 'Money' with the ashes ("Jan Fabre"). He has a solo performance where he draws with his own blood. His famous 'The Bic-Art Room' had him locked up in a white cube for three nights and days with objects which he drew using blue Bic ballpoint pens. His Bic-art made him famous in 1990 when he lined a whole building with his ballpoint pen drawings ("Jan Fabre"). He also had a career as a stage director and designer. His other favored media for sculptures besides beetles is bronze. In many of the his sculptures Fabre likes to capture the essence of the spiritual body reduced to shell. As Stated by Fabre during his interview, "Humans have internal skeletons and beetles have external skeletons, therefore when he uses beetles as his media for his body sculptures they in an essence looked at as skeletons" ("Jan Fabre"). Jan Fabre has a unique but definitely fascinating way to express his art and emotions.