Ann Demeester, Massimiliano Gioni, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Michaël Borremans, Edna van Duyn (Ed) — MICHAEL BORREMANS. WEIGHT, ** with Drawing and SIGNED **

, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2008, Bound, blue cardboard, illustrated dustjacket, 180 x 240mm., 88 pages, full colour illustration. *** With a drawing of the hands of Barbara and the mention « For Barbara and René from Michael » signed and dated 22-06-2010 ISBN 9783775721301. Although originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, Belgian artist Michael Borremans (* 1963 in Geraardsbergen) has made a name for himself with absurdly ominous drawings and enigmatic paintings. In 2005, Borremans first presented a film projection as an integral part of a room-filling installation at the Berlin Biennale. His films shifting tableaux vivants with poetic titles, in which Borremans very gradually creates an oppressive atmosphere with subtle camera workare closely related to his two-dimensional works in terms of form and subject. Using a fixed camera position or slowly zooming in, he focuses on certain details of the scenery, body parts, faces, or clothing. It remains unclear who these people are or what they are doing. As in his paintings, the images in Borreman???s films balance on the fine line between a recognizable, everyday reality and a bizarre dream world. Exhibition schedule: De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, September 8 November 4, 2007 CAV, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal, March 15 - June 8, 2008.