Hatje Cantz Publishers

Luc Tuymans

Artwork by Luc Tuymans. Edited by Stephan Berg. Text by Konrad Bitterli.

Since the end of the 1980s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has been developing an extraordinarily complex work, combining the question of representation--inherent in any kind of painting--with a radical charge of pictorial motives. Grounded in a structure that is coolly figurative and drawinglike, and materials that are always preprocessed and mediated (for example, Polaroid shots, newspaper clippings, film stills), Tuymans creates calm, small-format pictures of cropped landscapes, objects, architecture and seemingly masked people. In their pastel haziness, often primed with white, his pictures evade concrete designation. This book presents a representative selection of Tuymans' works as well as a large group of specially created new works delimited by two central picture motifs: the cycle Die Zeit references the Holocaust, whereas Passion concerns the essence of religious belief.

PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers
LIST PRICE: US $ 24 CAN $ 30
FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 3 b&w.
ISBN: 9783775712651 / ISBN10: 3775712658
PUBLICATION DATE: 05/02/2003
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DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P / CODE:TRADE