Catalogue raisonné, offering a retrospective of more than twenty years of graphic works in various techniques, from photocopy to serigraph on monotype, lithograph, aquatint, photogravure, in situ projects and installations. Using unpublished source material and proofs, polaroids and watercolours--some from the archives of the master printer Roger Vandaele and the artist's own studio. An illustrated survey of Tuymans' complete graphic work from 1989 to 2012.
Luc Tuymans's recent work explores the complexities of contemporary image-making through stunning translations of digital imagery onto canvas. His muted compositions, once seen as fatalistic, now engage critically with themes of digital fragmentation and deception. This monograph showcases pieces from three exhibitions held since 2020, highlighting a shift in his palette that emphasizes urgency in today's global context. Accompanied by insightful texts from notable writers and historians, it deepens the understanding of Tuymans's influential artistic perspective and the enduring significance of painting.
Widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian painter Luc Tuymans continues to expand our understanding of the medium. Sourcing imagery from books, magazines, films, the internet, and increasingly his own iPhone photos, Tuymans’s unique selection of subject matter reveals his fascination with moral complexities. Exploring diverse and sensitive topics, many of which include historic references from World War II to more contemporary events such as 9/11, Tuymans presents imagery that at first seems innocuous or approachable but upon deeper inspection can be entirely unsettling. Achieved through his masterful handling of paint, his works are often suggestive of memories or familiar people, places, and things. The latest in the Spotlight Series, which focuses on new bodies of work by contemporary artists, Tuymans continues to take on increasingly complex subject matters in his primarily muted palette. Published on the occasion of the artist’s 2020 solo exhibition at David Zwirner Hong Kong, this book features an essay by art critic Su Wei, who approaches Tuymans’s newest paintings and how they expand his oeuvre.
At the age of nineteen, a young Luc Tuymans saw for the very first time the work of El Greco on a visit to the Szépmvészeti Múzeum in Budapest, an event that sparked his imagination and prompted him to embark on a journey that would lead him to be one of today's most influential artists. Almost forty years later, that life-changing experience is recounted and celebrated in The Image Revisited: Luc Tuymans in conversation with... , a book that acts both as a monograph and a history of art book. Timed to coincide with an exhibition organized by Tuymans at MuHKA, Antwerp, in June 2018, this richly illustrated book includes three conversations Tuymans had with art historians Hans Maria De Wolf, Gottfried Böhm and T.J. Clark in museums in Basel, Brussels and Budapest over the course of three years. What emerges, along with a fascinating discussion on the work of artists such as El Greco, Cézanne, Goya, de la Tour, Titian, Courbet, Mantegna, Hopper, Newman and Richter amongst others, is an insight into Tuymans' own creative process, and how the great art of the past inspired and motivated him.
Tuymans' Ziel war es, während der globalen pandemischen Krise aussagekräftige Bilder zu schaffen. Luc Tuymans erforscht Themen wie Geschichte und Erinnerung sowie die Beziehung zwischen Fotografie und Malerei, wobei er eine gedämpfte Farbpalette verwendet, um Leinwände zu schaffen, die gleichzeitig zurückhaltend und aber auch entwaffnend präsent sind. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Katalogs stehen vier monumentale Leinwände, auf denen Zahlen aufgebracht wurden, sowie drei weitere Gemälde und ein Animationsfilm. Seine Kompositionen sind unverwechselbar und stützen sich auf Bilder aus Fotografie, Fernsehen und Film.
Andreas Mühe (geb. 1979 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin), einer der renommierten deutschen Fotografen, ist zu Hause angekommen: mitten in Deutschland, besser gesagt im kollektiven Gedächtnis einer Nation, die nicht aus dem dunklen Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit treten kann. Dort, wo es noch immer schmerzt und die Zeit nicht zu vergehen scheint, am sagenumwobenen Obersalzberg, ist Andreas Mühe mit seiner Kamera auf Spurensuche gegangen, um den Mythos Obersalzberg zu erfassen und die liebste Idylle des Nationalsozialismus neu zu sehen. Seine Archäologie der Erinnerung ist eine Reise in die Gegenwart unseres Bildgedächtnisses, das jene Jahre festgehalten und abgespeichert hat, ohne dass wir vor Augen hatten, was Mühes Bilder uns zeigen. Das in diesem Buch präsentierte Ergebnis ist ein Bilderzyklus, der die Inszenierungswut jener Jahre als endloses Kulissenschieben vor gewaltigem Bergmassiv entlarvt, vor dem die Hauptfiguren des Nationalsozialismus ihr eigenes Theater aufführten. Mit Texten von Luc Tuymans, Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen & Matthias Struch sowie Karsten Ehlert.
Hardcover (no jacket; printed boards). Very good condition. Text in German and English. A couple of marks on page block and on rear board. Boards are a little worn at spine ends and corners. Board's upper corners are slightly bumped. Annotations in pencil on several pages. TA
