On&by Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today.Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, emerginginternationally in the early 1990s as an artist who has addressed not just thecontinuation of painting's relevance but subjects as difficult to represe [...]
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Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today.Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, emerginginternationally in the early 1990s as an artist who has addressed not just thecontinuation of painting's relevance but subjects as difficult to represent asthe long-lasting traumas of war, colonialism, and everyday violence. Tuymanshas also been a filmmaker, a curator of his own art and its context, an exhibitorof other artists past and present, and an eloquent writer on his work and thatof the image-makers, thinkers, and authors who affect him. His pictures areghosted by language, always in a relationship with their precisely consideredtitles and the constant articulation of reflections on their themes and ideas. Edited by the historian and publisher Peter Ruyffelaere and with anintroduction by critic and curator Adrian Searle, this volume collects Tuymans'writings on his own and others' images, from Van Eyck, Vel?zquez, and El Grecoto Edouard Manet, Giorgio Morandi, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Chris Marker, NeoRauch, Paul McCarthy, and Jeff Wall. It includes dialogues with Tuymans' artistcontemporaries Ai Weiwei, Kerry James Marshall, and Wilhelm Sasnal, interviewswith Daniel Birnbaum, Martin Herbert, Jean-Paul Jungo, Udo Kittelmann, LucLambrecht, Wim Peeters, Kara Rooney, and Yasmine Chtchourova-Van Pee, andwritings on the artist's central works and ideas by Montserrat Albores Gleason, Laura Hoptman, Joseph Leo Koerner, Takashi Murakami, Philippe Pirotte, AdrianSearle, and Pablo Sigg.