Michael Borremans: Zeichnungen / Tekeningen / Drawings (2005)
Anita Haldemann, Peter Doroshenko, Jeffrey D. Grove
Verlag Walther König, 2005
€240,00
Our copy is new, still in the original sealing, and in addition 2 extra staplet booklets with the translations and 2 postcards (see second picture).
The figures in Borremans’ works are often isolated from the background, the context – without any setting that could disclose where they belong. An oppressive, uncomfortable atmosphere tends to prevail in many of the scenes. Despite their calm and concentration, they are nonetheless often bizarre and absurd. In The Advantage (2001) we see a man dressed in what appears to be a straitjacket. Is the title an irony relating to the man’s hopeless predicament, or is the artist saying that his restricted possibilities are truly an advantage? The dark humour is merciless.
The drawings and watercolours are more fantastical, more redolent of speculation and vision. While Borremans regards them as autonomous works of art in their own right, it could be said that their being drawings and sketches is thematised or emphasised so that they often appear to be ideas or drafts for future public embellishments.
ISBN: 3883758329
