{"title":"Michaël Borremans","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichaël Borremans (born 1963, Geraardsbergen, Belgium) is a Belgian painter, draughtsman, and filmmaker whose work is characterised by psychological tension, theatrical staging, and a painterly language rooted in the history of European figurative art. Working primarily in oil on canvas, Borremans creates images of isolated or grouped figures in ambiguous, often unsettling situations — suspended between action and stillness, presence and absence, the familiar and the uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis paintings draw on sources ranging from Velázquez and Goya to early photography and cinema, producing images that feel simultaneously historical and contemporary. His film works, including \u003cem\u003eTaking Turns\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) and \u003cem\u003eFire from the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), extend his painterly concerns into moving image, exploring repetition, ritual, and the staged body. Borremans has been represented by David Zwirner since the early 2000s and has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Kunsthalle Wien, and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Borremans’s practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"borremans-taking-turns-zwirner-inv-2009","title":"Michaël Borremans — Taking Turns — Exhibition Invitation Card, David Zwirner, New York, 2009","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eDavid Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, New York\u003cbr\u003e20.5 × 20.5 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card; film still from \u003cem\u003eTaking Turns\u003c\/em\u003e, 2009, 35mm film transferred to DVD\u003cbr\u003e24 February – 25 March 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for Michaël Borremans’s third solo exhibition at David Zwirner, and the U.S. presentation and world premiere of his film \u003cem\u003eTaking Turns\u003c\/em\u003e. A restrained square-format invitation: film still on one side, pale administrative exhibition details on the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blurred double figure connects directly to Borremans’s wider interest in staged bodies, psychological atmosphere, repetition, and uneasy theatricality. Two figures seen from behind, heads inclined toward each other, identities withheld — the image operates as both film document and autonomous pictorial object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe object sits between gallery announcement, film still, and collectible Borremans ephemera. As a printed support from the world premiere of a significant film work, it carries a specific documentary weight beyond the standard exhibition invitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Light surface rubbing and minor handling marks consistent with period gallery ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53751716675922,"sku":"BORREMANS-ZWIRNER-INV-2009","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Borremans_-Michael.-David-Zwirner-show-invite.-2009-front.jpg?v=1781503719"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/michael-borremans.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}