Weird World: meat as art

A Belgian artist's latest exhibition is made out of steak, chopped meat and bacon. Jan Fabre's Temples of Meat exhibition will only be on display for three days -- until it goes off, reports De Morgen. The exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in Ghent, includes a coat made of steaks and a tent of bacon with sleeping bags of steak. Fabre said: "Meat is a very erotic material. A lot of my work is about the cult of decay and death. I also loved to create something that will be destroyed after three days. It's a lesson in modesty for every artist who confesses his love for eternity." Fabre said he worked through the night with his assistants to turn 100kg of steak, 15kg of minced meat and a few kilometers of Parma bacon into art. It's not the first time he has worked with meat. In 2000, he covered the columns of the university aula in Ghent with pieces of bacon.