Luc Tuymans is not shy about admitting that he is easily one of the most influential figurative painters working today. His work - which often deals with heavy historical subjects like the Holocaust and postcolonial guilt - resists easy interpretation. So fans and the creatively curious alike will be delighted by the Whitechapel Gallery 's launch of On & By Luc Tuymans , a collection of Tuyman's writings (one of them is appropriately entitled, "I Still Don't Get It") on not only his own ideas and images, but those of El Greco, Giorgio Morandi, and Neo Rauch, to name a few. Edited by historian-publisher Peter Ruyffelaere, it also includes critical essays, dialogues and interviews by art historians, critics, and artists like Ai Wei Wei and Takashi Murakami. I actually managed to catch Tuymans after his recent Whitechapel Gallery talk in London with art critic Adrian Searle (who also wrote On & By Luc Tuymans 's introduction) abou...
Both the 'AS' Painting exhibition catalogue and 'Painting at the edge of the World' are important for the period, both exhibitions were held in the US.(2003) The 'Painting Present'. (Tate ) series has pod casts of both exhibition curators, Stephen Melvile and Douglas Fogule. (Fogule talks about the exhibition in 'Curating Painting,' Useful as a way in. Both important in consideration of alternative strands to Modernism. Worth taking the time to read.
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