Searching for Utopia is a work of art by Belgian artist Jan Fabre. Searching for Utopia depicts a turtle enlarged several times over with a rider (the artist’s self-portrait) looking toward the horizon. The bronze sculpture is seven meters long, three meters high, and weighs five and a half tons.
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Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who is Jan Fabre?
Jan Fabre is a Belgian artist, sculptor, choreographer, and theater director, born in 1958 in Antwerp.
Other works by him can be seen in Belgium, including a copy of Searching for Utopia in Namur, and the Scarab Totem in Leuven.
