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Description: The current exhibition at Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zürich (Switzerland) features paintings by Belgian artist Michiel Ceulers. Michiel Ceulers has graduated from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in 2011 after his studies at KASK in Ghent, BE. He has been awarded Young Belgian Painters Award, Gaverprijs and is included in the Michael & Susan Hort Collection, New York, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, and various other collections worldwide. Michiel Ceulers' solo show at Barbara Seiler is titled ‘Laura (a friend of Dorothy)’ and will be on view until 12 February 2022. Michiel Ceulers: Laura (a friend of Dorothy). Solo exhibition at Galerie Barbara Seiler. Zürich (Switzerland), January 20, 2022. #michielceulers #barbaraseiler #painting #zurich Exhibition text (excerpt): Michiel Ceulers (1986 in Waregem, Belgium) is concerned with the specific conditions and possibilities of painting, taking an experimental approach to abstraction. His process-oriented abstract paintings and sculptures are known to bear traces of misuse in the artist’s studio. He often tears, glues, grinds and punctures his canvases. His works feature imperfect geometric shapes and patterns, a playful exploration of art historical styles. A painting like ‚Living Mirror/Rotten Sun‘ (2021-2022) combines lyrical and geometric abstraction, has something of punk and graffiti, and plays with abstract art’s experiments with the frame. Michiel Ceulers’ practice is associated with excess of materiality. Ceulers has a fascination with cheap and shabby materials, especially cardboard. The paintings are often composed of found materials and thick layers of paint that are blithely smeared on the paintings and their frames. Michiel Ceulers‘ paintings represents the artist’s work in the studio, showing decay and scars, and raising the question of documentation and fiction. Each painting is a reflection of the result of a process, a physical experience that alienates the works from the artist himself. This conversation is the visualization of an inner process that questions its subject in a constant loop, as a mirror that confronts itself, or as painting that contemplates itself. The exhibition ‚A Condom Over A Zeppelin‘ (2021 Island, Brussels) was based on a line by Edina „Eddie“ Monsoon and Patricia „Patsy“ Stone, the main characters in the classic BBC series ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, which Ceulers considers one of the most complex relationships of our time. Michiel Ceulers has a penchant for titles. They come from different cultural fields: science, pop music, film, art, history, science fiction, the art world, philosophy or they are simply the result of his own associative imagination. Many works have duplicate or very long titles and add subjective and conceptual layers, as well as art about art dimensions and clever wordplay. The condom transforms the already phallic Zeppelin into a penis. Rather than evoking the passions of a size queen, the title seems to jokingly assume the inflated artist ego. ‘A friend of Dorothy’ (FOD) originates from the wizard of Oz and is a euphemism for a gay man and, by extension, any LGBTQ person. The term dates back to at least the World War II era, when homosexual acts were illegal in the United States. Saying this or asking if someone is a friend of Dorothy was a secret shibboleth for talking about sexual orientation while avoiding hostility. More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture: vernissage.tv Connect: instagram.com/vernissagetv facebook.com/vernissagetv twitter.com/vernissagetv Browse our Archive: vernissage.tv/archive/posts Find Artists, Designers, Architects: vernissage.tv/archive/artists Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.