Michaël Borremans: Hallucination and Reality

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is the first solo museum exhibition of work by Michaël Borremans (Belgian, b. 1963) and the only United States venue showing this exhibition. The fully illustrated 120-page exhibition catalogue Michaël Borremans: Tekeningen/Zeichnungen/Drawings will be available at the Museum for $38.

Comprising approximately 63 small drawings and paintings on cardboard created between 1995 to 2004, these images are cinematic in their reference and intimate in scale. As Jeffrey D. Grove, Weiland Family curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta and a curator of the exhibition notes, “Michaëls drawings are truly free of nostalgia or sentiment. They cunningly engage the tradition of Caricature, with its tragicomic observation of social customs and behaviors and withering indictment of society moribund but unaware.” The essence of Borremanss work transforms complex postwar political ideologies into clever ruminations on the human condition. His work comments humorously on middle-class etiquette and restraint, and the position of the artist in contemporary society. Many of his drawings are proposals for public monuments.

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent. Promotional support provided by Angle Magazine. The Cleveland Museum of Art receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council.

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Michael Borremans : Hallucination and Reality
Organisation: Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; SMAK Gent

Stationen:
16.10.04 - 05.01.05 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
05.02.05 - 10.04.05 SMAK Gent
22.05.05 - 04.09.05 Cleveland Museum of Art