Mil Ceulemans

by Thibaut Verhoeven

Roberto Polo Gallery proudly presents 'Silent treatment', a major solo exhibition of recent mixed media paintings on canvas by Mil Ceulemans, a Belgian painter born in 1977, who lives and works in Antwerp. We may see Mil Ceulemans' painting as purely 'fundamental' (in Dutch fundamentele schilderkunst), the scientific and technical analysis of the interaction between the elementary principles of painting. However, it is also highly intuitive and hyper-sensitive, reconciling the seemingly paradoxical formal and informal aspects of painting. As the title of his exhibition, 'Silent treatment',...