"LUC TUYMANS" par Ulrich LOOCK, Juan Vincent ALIAGA & Nancy SPECTOR. Editions Phaidon Press Limited, Londres / New York. 2001. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée à rabat illustrée en couleurs. 160 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques, noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors textes, de travaux de Luc Tuymans.

 

"Luc Tuymans is a Belgian artist who emerged in the late 1980s. His work fuses the traditions of Old Master Flemish and Spanish genre painting with a late 20th century sensibility, Tuymans' monochromatic palette and choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, common place objects or family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The source of his imagery, however, some of which derives from documentation of Nazi atrocities, gives his canvases a brooding violence. Modest in scale and sensitive in execution, this work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. ln addition to solo shows in Europe and America, Tuymans' work has featured in important surveys of contemporary painting, such as 'The Broken Mirror' at the Hamburg Deichtorhallen in 1993 and the Hayward Gallery's 'Unbound' in 1994…"

 

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