Add this copy of Michael Borremans: the Performance to cart. $100.00, like new condition, Sold by Hennessey + Ingalls rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
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Used-Like New. A plastic cap is placed carefully over a prim woman's hair. Three men wearing lab coats bend intensely over an equal number of women, examining their pupils. Two serious, smart women contemplate a white table. A man in a suit and tie smirks lightly while holding pairs of red spheres, perhaps cherries, between his fingers. A middle-aged schoolmarm sketches a windmill on the naked back of a small, brown-haired child. The figures in Micha'l Borremans's enigmatic paintings are for the moment preoccupied with a meticulous task. For how long, one wonders, have they been doing this, and for how long will they continue? The viewer, so accustomed by now to looking at everything quicker and quicker still, cannot help but look ever more deeply into these mesmerizing, puzzling oils. Borremans has caught his subjects in action, totally committed and concentrated, and they demand as much from the viewer. But no matter how close one looks, no real specificity is discernible in the depicted characters; notions of concrete time and place are dissolved in neutral tones of taupe and ochre. The vagueness of their middle-class restraint triggers a world of mildly ironic mystery, worthy of further contemplation. Essays by Partrick T. Murphy, Hans Rudolf Reust and Ziba de Weck Ardalan. Very nice copy.
Add this copy of Michael Borremans the Performance [Gebundene Ausgabe] to cart. $108.84, very good condition, Sold by LLU- BOOKSERVICE ANTIQUARIAN rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wahlstedt, S-H, GERMANY, published 2005 by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Die auffallend virtuos ausgeführten, in zurückhaltend-tonigen Farben gehaltenen Gemälde von Michaël Borremans (*1963 in Geraardsbergen, Belgien) zeigen zumeist einzelne Figuren oder kleine Gruppen, die sehr konzentriert und mit betonter Gestik agieren. Da nicht erkennbar ist, was genau die Protagonisten tun, wirken diese Bilder mysteriös und surreal; vor nur sparsam ausgeführtem Hintergrund führen sie in ihrer deutlich zeitlosen, an Stillleben gemahnenden Welt letztlich sinnlose Handlungen aus-ein durchaus ironischer Kommentar des Malers auf bürgerliche Normierungen und Zwänge. Vorlagen und Einflüsse für seine komplexen und faszinierenden Arbeiten findet Borremans in alten Fotografien aus den 1930er und 1940er Jahren, Porzellan-Kitschfiguren, bekannten TV-Serien wie in der Literatur. Diese disparaten Elemente führt er, in einer mit Joseph Cornell vergleichbaren Art und Weise, in seine intimen und poetischen Tableaux zusammen. Ausstellungen: S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent 5.2. -10.4.2005 · Parasol Unit, London 3.5. -30.6.2005 · The Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin 14.7. -4.9.2005 If you are a lover of painting and art books, this first work on Belgian artist Michael Borremans is well worth adding to your collection. I think Borremans has something quite new to bring to the figurative tradition. His subtle, subdued, gorgeous works seem to come from the 1930s or 40s, yet they express the anxiety of our era. The book is small, just 9.75 x 6 inches, so the reproductions are small too. Most are well-presented, though the color on some looks iffy. Some works have been enlarged to cross the gutter, which can be frustrating. But this is still a painter worth getting to know, and thus the book is worth it. A decade from now you'll be glad that you have this first book on the artist on your shelf. Borremans's Zeichnungen/Tekeningen/Drawings is an excellent book, but it's harder to get and his drawings are quite different from the paintings. I recommend both books. Contemporary artist Michael Borremans. Published for the exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Eire Ausstellungskataloge Kunst Borremans, Michael Borremans, Michaël Borremans, Micha‰l contemporary Art Dublin Museen Gent London Malerei painting Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent Zeitgenössische Kunst ISBN-10 3-7757-1589-4 / 3775715894 ISBN-13 978-3-7757-1589-8 / 9783775715898 Ausstellungskataloge Kunst Borremans, Michael Borremans, Michaël Borremans, Micha‰l contemporary Art Dublin Museen Gent London Malerei painting Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent Zeitgenössische Kunst.
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