PAINTER ON THE ROAD Willem Boronski

Painter on the Road is an ongoing series by Willem Boronski, built from eleven stations across three acts — The Ladder, The Road, and The Leap.

The work asks what remains when a person lets go of vertical ambition and steps into the horizontal movement of existence itself.

The series begins from a loss:

Van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, burned to ash in 1945. The canvas was gone, but the walking figure survived as a phantom. Boronski reanimates that lost walker and follows him from the climb, through the fall, along the road, and into the leap.

Its guiding thought is simple: every step is a universe.

An overview of the works is available in the viewing room: