23/12/2025
Our final book project of the year. Resurrection Blues gathers 2,300 images ranging from the detritus of art history to hypnagogic flashes—into a speculative encyclopedia. A frame-by-frame genealogy of shapes, textures, and unrealized abstract movements. Painter Mil Ceulemans, whose hands-on practice was interrupted by illness, reactivates decades of intuition through image generators. His painterly instincts now collide with lightning-fast computational systems shaped by online styles, collective expectations, and the shorthand aesthetics of pop culture. What emerges feels like an unlikely germination: code and intuition intertwine like mycelial strands, producing image-spores whose meaning unfolds slowly—through layers of gesture, colour, composition, and surface. Part inquiry into authorship, part archive of half-remembered or fictional schools, Resurrection Blues offers a stroboscopic glimpse into an artistic process that is both deeply rooted and constantly mutating.
With a literary reflection by Peter Terrin and MRCS.
Published by HOPPER&FUCHS.
