Luc Tuymans
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Luc Tuymans
This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, features the Belgian artist’s most recent work. Here, his fascination with Scottish light and its thinkers, who believed in the perfectibility of man, becomes apparent. Inspired by a visit to the art collection of the University of Edinburgh, Tuymans realised three small portraits of Scottish philosophers. Besides the theme of light, the notion of impending horror also plays a role in a monumental dark work, ‘The Shore’, which refers to Goya, and in the portrait of Issei Sagawa, a cannibalistic murderer. Includes a short story by British author Will Self and an essay by art historian Collin Chinnery. 00Exhibition: Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (31.10-19.12.2015)
Portraits
Luc Tuymans is a painter engaged with "figuration", using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources - photographs, film stills, mirror images - with a spare palette, unexpected cropping, obscured spaces and blurring to reinforce the painted image's status as a replica. Perhaps more than any other genre, portraiture allows Tuymans to explore the balance between revealing and concealing. Portraits: Luc Tuymans presents about 30 paintings from bodies of work ranging over the artist's entire career. Most seem conventional portraits - Himmler, 1997/98, A Flemish Intellectual, 1995 - but others, such as Bloodstains, 1993, and Fingers, 1995, exhibit the artist's elliptical approach to re-presentation. 0Exhibition: The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (27.09.-05.01.2014). 0.
Luc Tuymans
Paul de Moor freezes pictures, snapshots, conversations, impressions and emotions to form a portrait of Luc Tuymans like water turning gradually into ice. In this book de Moor invites the young reader into the strange and gripping world of Luc Tuymans, one of the most important contemporary artists on the international scene. 'My grandfather is a huge hat in the park. His face a black patch under a wide brim. He's holding me firmly by the hand. We're feeding the wild ducks and the geese. It's cold. Ice cold. My grandfather's voice comes from the black patch under the wide brim of his hat. A warm, soft voice. A grandfather voice. A big-hat voice. With stories in. With stories he told me and with stories he would tell me one day.'