Mil Ceulemans

Thibaut Verhoeven, Gregory Ball

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', may imply, Mil Ceulemans is an impatient painter inquest of pictorial conflict and collision with his persona. His creative process is experimental, one of trial and error over time, of constantly adding, effacing and removing paint from the canvas until it assumes a history of its own. In his...