Michaël Borremans: Automat
Preface by Veit Görner. Texts by Martin Germann and Hans Rudolf Reust
Michaël Borremans frequently exhibits his paintings and films together, drawing out painterly qualities from film and cinematic qualities from paint to elucidate moody scenarios of \"automated\" behavior--scenarios in which the actions and poses of individual people or groups seem to be trapped in a loop of melancholia and unspecified woe, or what one critic has called a \"Theatre of the Absurd,\" evoking not so much the theatrical movement of the same name as the sense of both stagedness and absurdity in Borremans\s images. These qualities have already been explored in earlier Borremans films, such as The Feeding, The Storm and Taking Turns. Automat--a perfect title for conveying the artist\s preoccupations--presents Borremans\s most recent works in film, drawing, and paint.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Artists: Michaël Borremans
Contributors: Martin Germann, Veit Görner, Hans Rudolf Reust
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
Pages: 72
Reproductions: 40 color
ISBN: 9783775724418
Retail: $30 US & Canada
Status: Out Of Print
Michaël Borremans
Michaël Borremans was born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. In 1996, he received his M.F.A. from Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Campus St. Lucas, in Ghent. David Zwirner has represented the artist’s works since 2001. Previous solo exhibitions at the gallery include Black Mould (London, 2015) The Devil’s Dress (New York, 2011), Taking Turns (New York, 2009), Horse Hunting (New York, 2006), and Trickland (New York, 2003). Borremans’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at a number of prominent institutions. Most recently, Michaël Borremans: Fixture, was presented at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in 2015–2016. A major museum survey, Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets, which included one hundred works from the past two decades, was on view at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 2014. The exhibition traveled later in the year to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, followed by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2015. Michaël Borremans: The Advantage, the artist’s first museum solo show in Japan, was also on view in 2014 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.