{"id":77,"date":"2015-05-06T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boman.be\/portfolio\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T21:33:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.boman.be\/portfolio\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"CURRICULUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<h3><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Studied advertising drawing at SISA in Antwerp.<\/li>\n<li>Completed courses in Interior Design and Ceramics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mol.<\/li>\n<li>During a five-year stay in Johannesburg, South Africa (1981-1986),\u00a0Daisy\u00a0attended various Ceramic &amp; Pottery courses.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0became a member of \u2018The Association of Potters of S.A.\u2019 and \u2018The Artists under the Sun Association,\u2019 regularly participating in open-air exhibitions at Zoo-Lake Park in Johannesburg.<\/li>\n<li>She was\u00a0Selected multiple times for the \u2018Corobric National Ceramic Exhibition\u2019 in Johannesburg and Pretoria.<\/li>\n<li>Her art was appreciated by an international audience.<\/li>\n<li>Upon returning to Belgium (1986), Daisy developed her distinctive personal style into a fully-fledged artistic expression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Artistic Statement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1987, she created her \u2018Bomannetje,\u2019 representing \u2018The Human\u2019 in its most primitive form\u2014raw, rudimentarily structured, and curiously faceless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Bomannen\u2019 (Bomannetjes) are sometimes solitary but usually in groups. As physical clones of humans, they communicate only through body language, expressing universal emotions and aspects of life. They climb and fall, triumph and lose, overcome challenges, and bear life\u2019s burdens. They race ahead and stumble behind. They are playful yet sombre, full of life yet weary, pausing before continuing their journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each figure, in its absolute simplicity, conveys the essence of existence in both form and material, occasionally accentuated by a subtle touch of colour. Their cuboid, faceless heads symbolise human conditioning\u2014our formation (or indoctrination) by our environment, society, culture, religion, education, and media.\u00a0These characteristics remain externally invisible.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Exhibitions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Presented her work at \u2018Het Zwanepand\u2019 Gallery, Antwerp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Exhibition at \u2018Nova Platea\u2019 Gallery, Antwerp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 First exhibition of the \u2018Bomannetje\u2019-series at \u2018Minotaurus\u2019 Gallery, Bruges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>1997:<\/strong>\u00a0Cultural Centre De Werft, Geel<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000:<\/strong>\u00a0Cultural Centre \u2019t Getouw, Mol<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000:<\/strong>\u00a0Lineart, Ghent (with Mas Gallery)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001:<\/strong>\u00a0Lineart, Ghent (with Tarzan Art Gallery)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004:<\/strong>\u00a0St\u2019Art, Strasbourg, France<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018K.U.R.K\u2019 at Cultural Centre De Warande, Turnhout<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004:<\/strong>\u00a0Lineart, Ghent (with A.C.I.B. Gallery)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005:<\/strong>\u00a0Contrast Gallery, Brussels<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005:<\/strong>\u00a0Woolff Gallery, London<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005:<\/strong>\u00a0MAS Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007:<\/strong>\u00a0Lineart, Ghent (with Van Duyse Gallery, Antwerp)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008:<\/strong>\u00a0Five-year collaboration with Halcyon Fine Art Gallery, London, leading to solo exhibitions and distribution across galleries throughout the UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011 &amp; 2013:<\/strong>\u00a0Solo exhibitions at Washington Green Gallery, Birmingham<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008-2010:<\/strong>\u00a0Exhibitions at Gallery Marleen Van Duyse and the \u2018Design Centre Winkelhaak,\u2019 Antwerp, and Contrast Gallery, Brussels<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Solo exhibition at cultural house \u2019t Kristallijn, Mol<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Rive Gauche Gallery, Namur<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong>\u00a0Received the Culture Award from the City of Geel<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012:<\/strong>\u00a0Collaboration with \u2018Ode To Art Gallery,\u2019 Singapore<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013:<\/strong>\u00a0Solo exhibition at \u2018De Lakenhal,\u2019 Herentals<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013:<\/strong>\u00a0Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013:<\/strong>\u00a0Mestdach Interior Gallery, Knokke (permanent collaboration)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018The Antwerp Whisperer\u2019 project for the company \u2018Condominium,\u2019 Antwerp<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong>\u00a0Solo exhibition at PSA office building, Antwerp<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Ode To Art Gallery,\u2019 Singapore \u2013 invited for an art project at a major construction project in Singapore<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong>\u00a0Exhibitions at Nunc Contemporary, Antwerp, and Community Centre DE CAMME, Perk<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016:<\/strong>\u00a0Collaboration with \u2018Gallery Art Market,\u2019 Cottingham, UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016 &amp; 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0Galerie \u2018Aujourd\u2019hui \u2013 Art et Design Int\u00e9rieur,\u2019 Paris<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018-2020:<\/strong>\u00a0Commissioned by PSA Singapore to create and deliver 13 life-sized unique Boman sculptures in polyester, permanently displayed in PSA office buildings<\/li>\n<li><strong>2020:<\/strong>\u00a0Solo exhibition at Cultural Centre \u2018De Halle,\u2019 Geel<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021:<\/strong>\u00a0Permanent collaboration with Lola Gallery, Geel<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA Singapore orders 15 life-sized polyester sculptures<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA commissions 2 \u00a0groups of \u00a03 large-scale polyester sculptures for two metro stations in Singapore<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA commissions a Boman wall-project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Artistic Projects and Collaborations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>2014:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018The Antwerp Whisperer\u2019 \u2013 a project for \u2018Condominium\u2019 in Antwerp. It features five life-sized Boman figures climbing the fa\u00e7ade of an office building, with a three-metre-tall figure on the roof whispering a message to a listening figure seated on a pedestal along Willemsdok Marina.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Ode To Art Gallery,\u2019 Singapore, commissions a public artwork for the \u2018Habitat\u2019 mega construction project, exciting of five, life-sized steel sculptures, lacquered in red color.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018-2020:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA Singapore commissions 13 life-sized, unique Boman sculptures in polyester, permanently placed throughout their office buildings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2021:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA Singapore orders 15 life-sized polyester sculptures for the \u2018Extension Tuas\u2019 office expansion at the harbour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2022:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA commissions two groups of three life-sized polyester sculptures for 2 metro stations leading to PSA Singapore offices. The official inauguration was attended by the Minister of Transport, Belgian Embassy representatives, PSA\u2019s CEO, and other executives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong>\u00a0PSA commissions a Boman project against a 10-metre-high natural stone wall in their office building\u2019s entrance hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Publications and Media<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Title | Author, Publication, Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Book (2010):<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018BELONGING\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book (2018):<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018ALONGSIDE\u2019 \u2013 A special edition marking the inauguration of \u2018The Antwerp Whisperer,\u2019 created in collaboration with \u2018Condominium.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book (2022):<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018HORIZONS\u2019 \u2013 A retrospective celebrating the collaboration with PSA, featuring an overview of recent artworks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Studied advertising drawing at SISA in Antwerp. 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