Michaël Borremans’ paintings look straightforwardly realistic, but beneath the clarity of his images there lies an unsettling world that calls for closer scrutiny, which in turn offers up a whole lot more to discover.
Many of the paintings render private and unremarkable environments in which human figures are apparently engaged in simple everyday activities. Time seems to stand still in them and the humans appear to be ‘still-life’ figures rather than living beings. Borremans’ paintings are also about paint and its infinite potential, about the activity of painting, and about what painting can be and represent. The paintings are also about the endeavours of a painter who can create, on an inanimate canvas, a fascinating world that engulfs the viewer.
With thanks to Parasol Unit http://www.parasol-unit.org/
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