Don’t Look Back (d'après Souvenir de Biskra de Matisse), 2020-2022
"Michael Bastow strives to paint more or less beautiful women to give them what they don't have : his desire" - Roland Topor
The main subject of his work is the female nude, its magnetic and hieratic sensuality, displayed in a repertoire of lazy, equivocal or provocative poses that flirt with eroticism. Sometimes present in the form of a self-portrait in his composition, he expresses the ambivalent relationship between the artist and his models.