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Saturday, May 21, 2005
Michaël Borremans: Hallucination and Reality
The Cleveland Museum of Art: May 22, 2005, to Sept. 4, 2005
Michaël Borremans (Belgian, b. 1963) The Journey (True Colours), 2002 Pencil, watercolor, white and black ink, varnish on book cover 17 x 24.7 cm. Courtesy Zeno X Gallery
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.” ...