Artist Spotlight: Michaël Borremans - A Complete and Chronological Overview

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[@contemporaryartissue]

Erratum: 03:57 - The Soil, 2002 04:07 - Where is Ned, 2002 04:32 - Disposition, 2003 05:47 - Hornet, 2008 05:52 - Untitled, 2008 09:42 - Girls on the Dancefloor, 2020

[@kingdm8315]

Who’s here after balenciaga

[@randpherigo9724]

Yeah., Im appalled .. the rich, really love sick people.. its inherent

[@ranahegaze1596]

Yes , so rich people love sick art as it reflects their inside…. We live in a fu$ked up world

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

yes, f*ck these r@ts!

[@galh29]

Me lol

[@marvtintv2301]

Idiots are who dont undrstand art

[@acorn8170]

This man is sick. Period

[@rock9Tray]

Sick as hell right ?? 🔥🔥

[@ntgangster1]

Check out the Chapman brother and Kering Company.

[@rivkahhaubner7498]

Do you know anything about him? To me, his work seems far more existencial than sexual in nature. (I’m assuming you’re referencing his book in the Balenciaga ad. To be clear, I don’t support the company, but I don’t think this guy needs to be dragged)

[@cosmicabyss7358]

@@rivkahhaubner7498 I bet you have no idea what's in that book do you?

[@venom07786]

You would consider your nature sick too.Thus your opinion is irrelevant.

[@TheRomaEdition]

Not me reading commend from 11 months ago saying “he’s a genius.” 🤣🤦‍♂️

[@malih7777]

Uglyness, darkness. Dont support the evil!

[@rohitmadashri7250]

Great overview of the artist. Not so sure about the music, found it distracting - too upbeat and loud.

[@contemporaryartissue]

Hi Rohit, thank you for watching and for your honest, most helpful thoughts. Much appreciated

[@nikka238]

Satan

[@kevomeister]

Horrible paintings

[@praptisuprapti7061]

from psycho painting...🙊

[@RavenWolfDrum69]

Right... see how many ppl on here commenting how great he's is

[@yeah_yeahwhatever]

Oh, Michael, you're about to get more spotlight than you may want thanks to your little book Michael Borremans: Fire From The Sun.

[@bradleydahlgren6632]

whats it about?

[@mel124177]

@@bradleydahlgren6632 Balenciaga's slip on their satanic paedophilia.

[@funfun4841]

@@bradleydahlgren6632 Fire 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. - official site make out of it what you want but its disgusting and tasteless honestly

[@nancygutierrez9789]

Eh visto pintura de este artista y su mente divaga a sacrificar niños

[@rc8422]

A pagan, perhaps even a Baal worshipper. SRA.

[@johncaze757]

Wat??

[@rc8422]

@@johncaze757 his work depicts satanic ritual abuse on children, Druid/Babylonian animal sacrifice, etc. A tormented soul who has seen it all. It’s all real.

[@johncaze757]

@@rc8422 yes it does looks very strange but how could we know if this is satanic or something else entirely?

[@rc8422]

@@johncaze757 fair enough. I’ve put in enough time to know precisely what I’m looking at. Possible I’m wrong? Slim to none. His work was most recently featured on a Balenciaga ad that literally promotes child (you know what). Check it out! Many blessings. Jesus is the only truth and way. Unfortunate truth for many, but there is no other path to salvation. The crowd of this artist know it all too well.

[@3-Kashmir]

@@rc8422 it good that you are starting to find out the truth. But now your falling for another one of the devils tricks. The sun god, mithra the trinity, the pantheon. I do not deny the son of Mary. He was a mighty prophet & the Messiah but God does not beget nor is begotten. I recommend you start looking into Islam it full truth. it basically came to merge the spirit of the law back to the letter of the law!

[@nikoseaman6248]

What a weird guy 🤣🤣 little kid paintings are just outta pocket

[@rc8422]

not for a babylonian

[@lushfauna]

Outta pocket? What's that mean?

[@orlandoiriarte2845]

The Balenciaga thing with this is so creepy. I only wish that there are no bad things behind these paintings.

[@leonardonetagamer]

He is a pedosadist. Thsre are only bad things

[@normandy2501]

Would you feel the same about a photojournalist taking photos of young war casualties? I ask because you could almost see his paintings the same way, a more stylized report of what people go through in the world. An artistic PSA.

[@rumiastars9848]

u live in the world where bad things r behind every aspect of life

[@Faabie-bz5nn]

There are alot of dark and secret messages behind all of his paintings.

[@marylester45]

🤮

[@alexjottens]

His work is amazing. Thanks Balenciaga scandal, for teaching me about this phenomenal artist.

[@rivkahhaubner7498]

Bro same. In my eyes, his work doesn’t have the undertones people ascribe to it.

[@lushfauna]

Pedo fk

[@Downunshy]

Agree so much, same with that cremaster cycle project, I love shit like this it’s so ominous and has its own tone that you can’t really describe

[@lushfauna]

@@Downunshy Hey, some people think a pile of maggots is art right? Probably you. Do you like the smell too?

[@Downunshy]

@@lushfauna funny enough maggots are used in art too, In 2000, Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen (yes that Alexander McQueen) collaborated on their Angel installation, featuring 80 gallons of live dyed maggots arranged in the shape of an angelic face of Madonna🤷 and guess what it looks pretty damn good for a pile of maggots 😂🤣

[@xperyskop2475]

Why art now is so ugly.

[@swinger2]

you must not have listened, it is a representation of the human condition

[@Samimakeupfreak23]

@@swinger2 what does a baby with blood represents? Sickkkk af

[@rivkahhaubner7498]

@@Samimakeupfreak23 a few ideas: 1. humans are emotionally childlike, living in a violent, painful reality 2. Actual children have to suffer at the hands and actions of the adults around them 3. The planet is like a child with no power in how humans abuse it 4. Trauma causes us to emotionally return to childhood, opening wounds I could continue. The fact that a child is the subject of the painting does not make it child corn. To me, his work brings awareness to the pain children experience.

[@lushfauna]

Because the WEST sucks now

[@galh29]

Not every single art needs to be that beautiful or shallow meaning, some arts just like to use gore and stuff like that for whatever reasons.

[@radio-friendlyunitshifter4670]

Such upbeat and fun music set to jarring, dense and often brooding paintings haha

[@contemporaryartissue]

I agree! I really liked the contrast. Suits Borremans' ambiguous paintings and personality perfectly. In any case, thank you for tuning in!

[@Sonworshipper]

Oh man THIS did NOT age well

[@SouSou-tc4ji]

PEDOLAND

[@DanielLopes-jt8yl]

I am always impressed by the the works singularity and too, the plurality’s in them. One knows and yet doesn’t know; both of these things interchangeable. One can appreciate the work for the work and be informed in “some other way”. The formal properties give way to shadow ideas that shift then to the dominate position. This is a curious aspect of his work. That you don’t know what your looking at till you know what your looking at. That the way something looks is dependent on a particular kind of message/knowledge concerning it. Anyway the rental/cerebral thing is quite interesting- to say the least.

[@LayMeInTheRiver]

Hell yeah brother

[@WARDISWARD]

He was my teacher at sski in 1996-1997

[@LarayaDelculo]

De que se asustan tanto todos hemos visto la pintura negra de Goya y no pasa nada... Un genio el tipo

[@LOL-mh9pl]

Creepy

[@johnhoelen5901]

Though I really like the man's work if found the information a bit crammed in there making it impossible to follow. Music is not well thought through. More something for in an elevator or supermarket.

[@contemporaryartissue]

Hi John, thank you for tuning in and for your constructive feedback, most appreciated! Have a great day

[@leonardonetagamer]

Pedosadist

[@TheSkinnyZ]

Wow. How outrageous. 😅

[@missinglink9973]

now that is a talented painter

[@contemporaryartissue]

He sure is!

[@ambarvizcarra9656]

Unfortunately I heard of him through the Balenciaga scandal atm. He’s a great artist who is now going to be wrapped into that mess because everyone is just using his “darker” pieces to fit their story lines

[@AndersenTrades]

And rightly so. You have a disturbed mind if you paint cannibalizing children

[@rivkahhaubner7498]

Yep. Sad.

[@lightoffaithchristian4382]

babies painting with dismembered body parts and covered in blood is tasteful to you? YOu people need mental help and therapy.

[@BlondeMafia89]

Anyone who thinks that paintings of naked bloody little boys with limbs missing is great "art" is SICK in the head and needs help!

[@ambassador8524]

This guy is baaaad news

[@brandymelvillebby]

Wow he seriously got more and more depraved over that course of 20 ish years. The paintings got more horrendous & low vibe. But the cones r nice.

[@lushfauna]

probably what he does to the kids

[@Awakeninghumanzombies247]

🥱🥱🐍🦎👋👋👋👋💩🤡🤡🤡👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🏰💔

[@behradkhodaeee7508]

❤❤❤

[@eole123456789]

Excellent. Thanks. I’m Belgian and I only recently learned about this artist. This is amazing. Thanks for the video. May I say however that the background music is a little cheesy and distracts from the viewing.

[@contemporaryartissue]

He is one of the best and had a great retrospective at BOZAR in 2014 if I am not mistaken. Thank you for the helpful feedback!

[@JohnSmith-ix4nb]

Thanks!, great survey of his works.

[@contemporaryartissue]

The pleasure is all mine, thank you for tuning in!

[@jmnm7019]

I’m scared that this might be a real portrait.

[@user-uc4pf2rt4j]

🤮🤢🤮🤢

[@airtimedroneguy6449]

Some great art

[@mel124177]

Pretentious

[@contemporaryartissue]

Hello dear readers and subscribers. Today we take on the ambiguous world of Michaël Borremans. Feel free to share your thoughts on the Belgian painter in the comments. And, who should be our next artist for an artist spotlight on CAI?

[@jankowalik2200]

What about an overview of Josh Smith?

[@kasperclaes1516]

David Altmejd would be nice

[@contemporaryartissue]

@@jankowalik2200 Great suggestion! Noted.

[@contemporaryartissue]

@@kasperclaes1516 Interesting suggestion, thank you very much!

[@skierpage]

Nice presentation of an artist I'd never heard of; "The Devil's Dress" is wild! But the narration becomes sluggish and lifeless with passive voice (cf. "it is found the narration is made lifeless as passive voice is used" 😉). 6:39 onwards: "his technique and visual language are perfected", "the used colour palette", "lone figures ... are depicted", "some are positioned", etc. There's a real Borremans/"he" doing all this! Then you snap out of it and go back to active voice at 7:36, "Borremans often pays..."

[@NoneofyourBusiness-hy5ln]

All of it is unsettling.

[@luciafontana2184]

🥶🥶🥶

[@quimdeu]

FAN!

[@CSchaeken]

Great presentation. He is one of my favourite artists.👍

[@contemporaryartissue]

En terecht! Ook één van mijn ultieme favorieten :-)

[@tulsaokok]

Filthy, Liberal Reprobate.

[@heathrrkeenan3383]

He’s a absolutely creep

[@nickb863]

Borremans work harkens back to Goya, so much more so than Rubens, Velazquez or Caravaggio. He paints with much more rapidity and directness than any of the latter, and the modeling of his figures is degraded in comparison to classicism, again in a similar style to Goya who was probably influenced by mannerist art reflecting a dark, pessimistic mood .. a rejection of the classical spirit, in favor of a return to rustic qualities of Medieval art.

[@dennisstauffer-villalobos8707]

Idk how I feel about this. It's art which is a pure from of expression and something that can't really be considered "wrong" the images are just a bit too oberstimulating for me.

[@contemporaryartissue]

Fair enough! I enjoy his work very much-hauntingly beautiful, ambiguous, witty, sometimes funny. One of my favorite painters today.

[@odinsfire1409]

The true art here as with most is the descriptive verbosity that is needed to describe the art. This is the norm these days. All art imo should stand alone silently to be observed and referenced by the observer.

[@marvtintv2301]

The work does stand alone silently. It is misunderstood and has been massively misrepresented by balenciaga.

[@GoldBOya666]

Great right up , as an artist and a human this was informative and his work is definitely working !

[@georgemohr7532]

Will be watching this again. So much to think about and to consider.

[@contemporaryartissue]

Thank you for tuning in George, spot on.

[@sofreewilly]

Now you should watch this again in 2022 lol

[@williamschlenger1518]

I'm a portrait painter & his work is fantastic.

[@contemporaryartissue]

I agree!

[@briza2022]

How he adds life to everything he does, so nice. I admire.

[@contemporaryartissue]

Indeed, absolutely extraordinary

[@williamschlenger1518]

All us artist are the same.It may look good to you & not to us.🤔

[@aesthral]

ngl shit looks like lowquality Free AI art

[@navasabetimani7090]

I wanted to copy one of his paintings to learn his style, but I could not. He is amazing. ✨

[@leonardonetagamer]

You wanted to copy a pedophile? Please turn yourself in.

[@TheRomaEdition]

U are sick. Check ur head

[@navasabetimani7090]

@@TheRomaEdition My comment is from four months ago. I have now learned his technique :)) In fact, Velasquez's technique.. If I said copy, I meant technique, not imitation of his concept. You told me to check my brain too late :))

[@navasabetimani7090]

@MIKE KEEMO yes, And you?

[@navasabetimani7090]

@MIKE KEEMO What happened to you people that you judge others like this?

[@massalianboy4924]

Weed at 1:32 near his book😂

[@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl]

Awesome 👏

[@fvkc-r-e_2_d_9th-pwr14]

Love, love, love Borremans!

[@contemporaryartissue]

100% agreed!

[@leonardonetagamer]

Pedosadist

[@TheRomaEdition]

@@contemporaryartissue Which one is your fav? A child in blood or children with knives? Tell us

[@Downunshy]

@@TheRomaEdition both

[@kibeschannel8590]

I just see his name in a Balenciaga ads. So creepy

[@user-fm8bt7xq5v]

Cool!/NOiU

[@contemporaryartissue]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@galh29]

His works are amazing, so bad that balanciaga made his name dirty. 😞

[@jmnm7019]

Children eating limbs is amazing?

[@galh29]

@@jmnm7019 Yes.

[@cenarn562]

His art made his name dirty, his painting are sick and disturbing

[@michaelabar4037]

Iiigitt

[@ikeaiseeyah4131]

Disturbing, man must’ve been sick in the head cuz this ain’t art

[@jilllamb3949]

#cancelmichaelborrowsnmans

[@SeniorAdrian]

Edgy for the sake of being edgy.

[@tatiyanaviale]

Obviously people who are into art are not into economics and history. This man is sick.

[@hayabador569]

Satanic