Luc Tuymans Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings: Volume 1

1972–1994

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Publication Date: 2018

Edited with text by Eva Meyer-Hermann

This first volume in a catalogue raisonné of Tuymans’s paintings surveys nearly 200 works from the vital early years of his career 
 
Credited with a key role in the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) continues to produce subtle, and at times unsettling, works that engage with history, technology, and everyday life. This first volume in a catalogue raisonné of Tuymans’s paintings surveys nearly 200 works that were vital to his artistic development. The years 1972 to 1994 witnessed the maturation of his signature method of painting from preexisting imagery—such as magazine images, Polaroids, and television footage—as well as his first solo exhibition. Also dating from this period are many of his seminal canvases, along with ten poignant portraits of the ailing human body and the enigmatic series Superstition that comprised his first works exhibited in the United States. 
 
The catalogue features brilliant new photography of each of the paintings and an illustrated chronology with archival images and installation shots of the works in this volume. This publication is a testament to Tuymans’s persistent assertion of the relevance and importance of painting—a conviction that he maintains even in today’s digital world, when his work continues to be a touchstone for artists and scholars.

Details

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Artist: Luc Tuymans

Contributors: Eva Meyer-Hermann

Publication Date: 2018

ISBN: 9781941701614

Retail: $200 | £165 | €224

Designer: McCall Associates

Printer: Trifolio, Verona

Binding: Hardcover with slipcase

Dimensions: 9 ¼ ×12 in | 23.2 × 30.5 cm

Pages: 492

Artist and Contributors

Luc Tuymans

One of the most important painters working today, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) pioneered a distinctive style of figurative painting beginning in the 1980s that has been singularly influential to his peers as well as subsequent generations of artists. The artist’s canvases are based on preexisting imagery from a range of sources and rendered in a restrained palette that belies an underlying moral complexity.

Eva Meyer-Hermann

Eva Meyer-Hermann is a German art historian who has worked for international museums and major private collections for over twenty-five years. She was formerly a curator at the Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, and was later director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg. Afterwards, she was both director and curator of two private art collections in Switzerland, before becoming senior curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Since 2006, she has been an independent curator and writer.

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