Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) 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, 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, and to comment on history and its perpetrators. Portraits. Luc Tuymans presents 35 ...
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Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) 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, 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, and to comment on history and its perpetrators. Portraits. Luc Tuymans presents 35 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. Tuymans's canvases are placed in counterpoint to his selections from the Menil Collection: masks, statuary, and paintings from African, ancient Mediterranean, and Native American cultures, as well as European figurative works. The assembly explores such themes as death and memorials, ritual or religion, power, evildoers and altruism. Distributed for The Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: The Menil Collection (09/27/13-01/05/14)
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Signed by the Artist. 128 pages with 62 illustrations in color. [SIGNED] Signed on the front free endpaper in pen by the artist, Luc Tuymans. Foreword by Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Menil Collection, Houston TX September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014.
