On&By Luc Tuymans (Whitechapel: On & By) - Softcover

Ruyffelaere, Peter; Searle, Adrian; Blazwick, Iwona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262525399 ISBN 13: 9780262525398

Publisher: MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential figurative painters working today. Born in 1958 and based in Antwerp, he has exhibited since 1985, with recent retrospectives in Europe and the United States. From the beginning, his work addressed the challenge to painting's legitimacy posed by minimal and conceptual art by taking a sidestep: creating works that seem to have emerged from a preceding era, alienated from their producer. This formal effect of historical distance works in counterpoint with the paintings' often emotionally evocative subject matter, which ranges from the traumatic legacies of postwar Europe to those of postcolonial Africa. Tuymans has also made films, collaborated closely on projects with other artists, and curated group exhibitions of both contemporary and historic art. In all these endeavors, Tuymans investigates the precarious space between documention and depiction of personal and collective memory. This volume collects the artist's statements on his own work as well as his writing on other artists, filmmakers, photographers, philosophers. and writers who have engaged with his thought. The second half of the volume surveys his major bodies of work in texts by leading art historians, critics, theorists and fellow artists.Contributors include Ai Weiwei, Helene Cixous, Montserrat Albores Gleason, Jean-Paul Jungo, Udo Kittelmann, Joseph Leo Koerner, Brice Marden, Kerry James Marshall, Takashi Murakami, Wim Peeters, Philippe Pirotte, Pablo Sigg

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About the Author:

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian painter based in Antwerp. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (where he represented Belgium in 2001); the Tate Modern, London; Meseu Serralves, Porto; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Peter Ruyffelaere is an art historian and editor who has collaborated closely with Luc Tuymans for years.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262525399
• ISBN 13: 9780262525398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240