Michaël Borremans. Whistling a Happy Tune
Drawings/Tekeningen
Michael Amy
Ludion, 2008
€200,00
1 in stock
The drawings, which form an oeuvre in themselves, are a means for Michaël Borremans to think, to set the imagination in motion and to develop ideas. They are often a kind of scanning and exploring concepts for sculptures, staging and even architecture. They show projects that may never be realized, but the ideas find their visualization through the drawings. Like his paintings, Borremans’ drawings look like solidified fragments from an indefinable and elusive time. They bring the viewer into a gloomy universe, averse to bright colors, in which characters with a certain resignation do strange things or perform bizarre rituals. Through detailed staging, he makes us part of complex, surrealistic scenarios that take place in an ambiguous world. For his drawings, which are relatively small and which he has been working on for a long time, Borremans often draws from newspapers, books, magazines and photo archives of the first half of the last century. He detaches visual elements from their original context by zooming in on details, bringing together objects from different sources or displaying them all in a different scale. He plays with references, omits elements or adds. Borremans combines pencil, watercolor, ballpoint pen, white ink and washes with coffee or a touch of oil paint to create his subversive universe full of contradictions.
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ISBN: 9789055447299
