A thoughtful presentation of five years of new work from the renowned Belgian painter.
Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. First published in hardback for the artist's first full-scale American survey in 2009, and now availa[...]
Published in conjunction with the artist's first full-scale American survey, this is without question the authoritative publication on Tuymans. It features approximately 75 key works from 1978 to the present, and is accompanied by essays analyzing the painter's main concerns, with particular attenti[...]
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[...]
Tuymans' monochromatic palette and choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects or family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of other images on his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sens[...]
ON&BY is a new series of anthologies devised by London's Whitechapel Gallery combining the writings of an internationally significant artist of our time with key texts on his or her work. In each volume leading scholars, critics, curators or fellow artists provide a complete overview of the ideas th[...]
"Graphic Works 1989-2012" offers a retrospective of graphic work by Luc Tuymans (born 1958), arguably the most celebrated Belgian artist working today, whose recreations of historically saturated imagery examine themes of memory and trauma. Using unpublished source material and proofs, Polaroids and[...]
The famous David Zwirner Gallery in New York has been a base of operations for the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans since 1994. At the start of his career, Tuymans committed himself to showing a new series of works there once every two years--a promise that he kept, and continues to keep, 18 years on, as[...]