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SUMMARY:David Zwirner - Michaël Borremans - Fire from the Sun
DESCRIPTION:David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Michaël Borremans\, inaugurating the gallery’s space in Hong Kong. This will be the artist’s first solo show in Hong Kong and his sixth overall with David Zwirner. \nFire from the Sun includes small and large scale works that feature toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. The children are presented alone or in groups against a studio-like backdrop that negates time and space while underlining the theatrical atmosphere and artifice that exists throughout Borremans’s recent work. Reminiscent of cherubs in Renaissance paintings\, the toddlers appear as allegories of the human condition\, their archetypal innocence contrasted with their suggested deviousness. Other paintings in the exhibition depict obscure machines\, whose enigmatic presence appears foreboding in the context of the toddlers and suggests an element of scientific experimentation. \nBorremans has gained worldwide recognition for his innovative approach to painting. Combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation\, his charged canvases address universal themes with a specifically contemporary complexity. As Michael Bracewell argues in new scholarship on the artist\, published in the accompanying exhibition catalog\, viewers are “caught in a strange time loop\, in which the nobility of execution ascribed to Old Masters―the re-creation in painting of human presence\, caught both stilled\, in a particular instant of its being\, and for eternity―is placed in the service of vertiginous modernist vision.” As Bracewell further notes on these works\, they portray psychological states that are not intended to be decoded: “the scenes depicted by the majority of paintings comprising Fire from the Sun show a state of being or society in which the primal is uncontrolled\, without bearings\, in a state of anarchy―the Id of Freudian primary process run riot\, with no Ego to mediate between instinctual behavior and ‘reality.‘ The art of Michaël Borremans seems always to have been predicated on a confluence of an enigma\, ambiguity\, and painterly poetics―accosting beauty with strangeness; making historic Romanticism subjugate to mysterious controlling forces that are neither crudely malevolent nor necessarily benign.” \nAbout the artist \nMichaël Borremans’s innovative approach to painting combines technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation. His charged canvases address universal themes that seem to resonate with specifically contemporary relevance. \nThe artist was born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen\, Belgium and in 1996 he received his M.F.A. from Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst\, Campus St. Lucas\, in Ghent. David Zwirner has represented his works since 2001. Previous solo exhibitions at the gallery include Fire from the Sun (Hong Kong\, 2018)\, Black Mould (London\, 2015)\, The Devil’s Dress (New York\, 2011)\, Taking Turns (New York\, 2009)\, Horse Hunting (New York\, 2006)\, and Trickland (New York\, 2003). \nBorremans’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at a number of prominent institutions. Most recently\, Michaël Borremans: Fixture\, was presented at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in 2015-2016. A major museum survey\, Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets\, which included one hundred works from the past two decades\, was on view at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 2014. The exhibition traveled later in the year to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art\, followed by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2015. Michaël Borremans: The Advantage\, the artist’s first museum solo show in Japan\, was also on view in 2014 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art\, Tokyo. \nIn 2011\, Michaël Borremans: Eating the Beard\, a comprehensive solo show was presented at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart\, and traveled to the Műcsarnok Kunsthalle\, Budapest and the Kunsthalle Helsinki. In 2010\, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo\, as well as commissioned work on view at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Other venues which have hosted solo exhibitions include the kestnergesellschaft\, Hanover (2009); de Appel Arts Centre\, Amsterdam (2007); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.)\, Ghent (2005)\, which traveled to Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art\, London\, and the Royal Hibernian Academy\, Dublin; Cleveland Museum of Art\, Ohio (2005); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven\, Germany (2004); and Museum für Gegenwartskunst\, Basel (2004). \nWork by the artist is held in public collections internationally\, including Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, Georgia; The Israel Museum\, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; National Gallery of Canada\, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.)\, Ghent; and Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota. Borremans lives and works in Ghent.
URL:https://onarto.com/art-event/pace-gallery-michael-borremans-fire-from-the-sun/
LOCATION:PACE Gallery Hongkong (Queen’s Road)\, 12/F H Queen'sม 80 Queen's Road Central\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
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