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Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun

  • Categories: Art

The first in a series of small-format publications devoted to single bodies of work, Fire from the Sun highlights Michaël Borremans’s new work, which features toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. Known for his ability to recall classical painting, both through technical mastery and subject matter, Borremans’s depiction of the uncanny, the perhaps secret, the bizarre, often surprises, sometimes disturbs the viewer. In this series of work, children are presented alone or in groups against a studio-like backdrop that negates time and space, while underlining the theatrical atmosphere and artifice that exists throughout Borrem...

Michaël Borremans
  • Language: en

Michaël Borremans

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Since the late 1990s, when he first began to produce drawings and paintings, Michaël Borremans has created an extraordinarily mature body of work that has captured international attention. The disparate spaces he imagines in his paintings, drawings, sculptures and films are unified by an uncanny sense of dislocation and an often unsettling beauty. Rendered in complex palettes and exquisite techniques, Borremans' works in all media embrace a rich legacy of artistic progenitors, but remain firmly anchored in the present. Presenting over 100 works created by the artist over a 14-year period in all media, this publication includes many works not previously reproduced in books or catalogues, off...

Michael Borremans: Horse Hunting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

Michael Borremans: Horse Hunting

  • Categories: Art

Michaël Borremans: Horse Hunting was published on the occasion of the artist’s second solo exhibition at David Zwirner in 2006. Amongst the fourteen new paintings on view was the eponymous work Horse Hunting (2005), which portrays a young man, fashionably attired, holding two twigs from each of his nostrils. Available in hardcover, this catalogue includes a text by Belgian artist and curator Hans van Heirseele.

Michaël Borremans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Michaël Borremans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Text by Jeffrey Grove.

Michaël Borremans
  • Language: en

Michaël Borremans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Belgium-based Michael Borremans creates absurd and sometimes ominous paintings. "Horse Hunting" (2005), for example, depicts, in a muddy palette, a pale and moody-looking man in a suit jacket and crisp white shirt shoving two twigs up his nose. He stares straight at us, and the wall behind him is filled with his shadow. Borremans has said of his paintings, "I use clichés and other elements that are part of a collective consciousness... my work would be perfect on biscuit tins." At the 2006 Berlin Biennale, Borremans showed a film on a small LCD screen, which he had framed like a painting. The piece was based on a 2002 drawing of a girl, which he reproduced in three dimensions, so that the girl slowly spins around. Whatever the medium, Borremans' work bears this trademark sense of absurdity verging on menace. Weight is published concurrently with an exhibition at De Appel in Amsterdam.

Michaël Borremans - Shades of Doubt
  • Language: en

Michaël Borremans - Shades of Doubt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Michaël Borremans: the Badger's Song
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Michaël Borremans: the Badger's Song

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Ambiguity and contradiction are the twin hallmarks of the paintings, drawings and ?lms of Michaël Borremans. He deploys his technical virtuosity to create apparently familiar scenes, which on closer inspection have an unsettling effect. He combines black humour, violence, absurdism and beauty to produce images that are strange and alienating, in which the subject seems to be situated in an unde?ned time and space. This catalogue provides an overview of all Michaël Borremans? work in series since 2013. It concerns seven different series of paintings, including ?Black Mould?, ?Fire From the Sun? and ?Girl with Hands?. The majority of the works have never before been published. Working in series is a recent development in Borremans? oeuvre.00Exhibition: Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (28.10. - 28.12.2020) / Museum of the 21st Century, Kanasawa, Japan (19.09.2020 - 28.02.2021).

Michaël Borremans
  • Language: en

Michaël Borremans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The paintings, drawings and films of Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (born 1963) seem to suspend humans above the logic of their actions, so that the simplest gesture or movement is emptied of sense and made arbitrary, tense and uneasily beautiful. Sometimes Borremans makes a garment the hero of the work, as in his well-known painting of a young woman with a bow: eye-catching as the subject's introspective facial expression undoubtedly is, the almost Pop-ish boldness of her bright white bow throws the whole composition into a bizarre tension between moody inwardness and mischievous extroversion rarely seen in contemporary art. The title of this first comprehensive overview hints at the sub...

You, Me and Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

You, Me and Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-03
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  • Publisher: Skira Paris

Never has contemporary art been so popular as it is now; never has its audience been so big. In the rapidly changing and vastly expanding art world one thing hasn't changed, however: it is the artist that remains at the center of artistic universe. In fascinating and personal interviews seventeen outstanding contemporary artists reflect on what does it mean to be an artist today. By doing so, they provide a great material to analyze the most urgent questions of the current art system. What artistic values should prevail? How to define the artist when the notions of shaman, revolutionary and bohemian are no longer valid? What is the relationship between artist and their public? How to stay re...

Rose Wylie: painting a noun...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 93

Rose Wylie: painting a noun...

  • Categories: Art

Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie—whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous—often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references memories from her own life and mimics the way memories evolve and change over time. Wylie’s source material is culled from the vast visual world around her, ranging from sixteenth-century British estates to Serena Williams and the French Open. While initially these may seem random or aesthetically simplistic, through the nuanced use of humor, language, and compositional structure, Wylie creates wittily observed and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of memory, and visual represen...