Michaël
Borremans
Michaël
Borremans
Borremans
Belgian, born in 1963
Faces grimacing, masked or deeply absorbed in thought rub shoulders with hooded heads and figures indulging in mysterious actions. Michaël Borreman’s paintings portray, through realistic brushwork and a palette of neutral colours, an austere and disturbing world deprived of all spatiality and temporality.
Trained in photography in Ghent, the Belgian artist started teaching himself painting in the early 1990s. Part of the long line of great masters in the genre, from Velasquez, to Manet, to Rembrandt, his picture work questions the illusory nature of our reputations and the meaning of life. His slow, nagging videos recall the anxiety-provoking atmosphere of his paintings.
Michael Borremans’ work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 exhibition "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi. In 2014, an important retrospective of his work was held at Bozar (Brussels), then in Tel Aviv and Dallas.
Trained in photography in Ghent, the Belgian artist started teaching himself painting in the early 1990s. Part of the long line of great masters in the genre, from Velasquez, to Manet, to Rembrandt, his picture work questions the illusory nature of our reputations and the meaning of life. His slow, nagging videos recall the anxiety-provoking atmosphere of his paintings.
Michael Borremans’ work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 exhibition "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi. In 2014, an important retrospective of his work was held at Bozar (Brussels), then in Tel Aviv and Dallas.
