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Department of Visual Arts

Faculty Seminar: Belgium artist Michaël Borremans

By Visual Arts

Posted on 01 March 2012

Michaël Borremans
Michaël Borremans

The internationally renowned artist, Michaël Borremans, will be visiting the Department of Visual Arts from the 5th to the 9th of March 2012, as guest of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria. We are pleased to announce his participation in a Faculty seminar.

International artist Michaël Borremans in conversation with Prof Elfriede Dreyer, Department of Visual Arts

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

12:30–13:30 

Merensky Library Auditorium, Level 3

The films, paintings and drawings by the internationally renowned Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (born in 1963) overwhelm the viewer through the use of deceleration, precision and vortex. His seductive works contain timeless images of inner drive and external force, of the latent pressure involved in being human. Behind a veil of stylistic perfection, the artist simulates common rituals of interpretation and meaning. His intensely atmospheric images are puzzles involving political and psychological patterns of perceiving the world, which oscillate in a camouflaging, fragile way between inexorable realism and nebulous distance.



Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, contact corena.garnas@up.ac.za.



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