Biography
Michaël Borremans is a Belgian painter born in 1963 in Grammont, Belgium. He studied photography at the Saint Luc College of Art and Sciences in Ghent and did not turn to painting until the age of 30, as an autodidact. He now lives and works in Ghent. From the end of the 1990s, Michaël Borremans had a very important international reputation through a varied production of drawings, paintings, films. His work is notably inspired by the works of Velazquez, Goya, Manet, Rembrandt or Chardin and also often refers to literature, photography and cinema. Michaël Borremans' realistic paintings almost evoke photographic portraits, so much attention seems to be paid to the details of the staging, the accessories and the light on these motionless, mysterious and timeless characters. Through his works, he wishes to stage, in an ironic and suggestive way, the illusory nature of our representations and the absurdity of existence. Michaël Borremans has exhibited his works several times around the world in Belgium, the United States, Italy, France, Germany and Hungary. In 2014, a major retrospective was dedicated to him at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
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