Tuymans' sparsely colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills, exploring diverse and sensitive topics including the Holocaust, the effects of images from 9/11, the ambiguous utopia of the Disney empire, the colonial history of his native Belgium, and the phenomenon of the corporation. Since 1994, Tuymans has committed himself to showing a new series of works at David Zwirner once every two years-a promise that he kept, and continues to keep, twenty years on, as his tempered style and political content have steadily garnered him worldwide acclaim. This reprint edition of Luc Tuymans: Exhibitions at David Zwirner includes additional visual material, as well as an updated appendix that features an exhibition history and bibliography. Striking color reproductions of the artist's major works are contextualized by brief commentary, photographs, and archival documentation, as well as installation views, exhibition checklists, and personal photographs. Other texts include an interview between the artist and David Zwirner, as well as individual interviews conducted by Lynne Tillman with art critic Peter Schjeldahl; artist Brice Marden; art historian and academic Robert Storr; and together with Helen Molesworth and Madeleine Grynsztejn, co-curators of Tuymans's major US retrospective.

Author Biography

Quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling, this Belgian artist's works engage equally with questions of history and its representation as with quotidian subject matter cast in unfamiliar and eerie light. Painted from pre-existing imagery, they often appear slightly out-of-focus and sparsely colored, like third-degree abstractions from reality. Whereas earlier works were based on magazine pictures, drawings, television footage, and Polaroids, recent source images include material accessed online and the artist's own iPhone photos, printed out and sometimes re-photographed several times. New York-based novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy (2006), No Lease on Life (1998)-which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award-Cast in Doubt (1992), Motion Sickness(1991), and Haunted Houses (1987). Brice Marden is an American artist based in New York. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Brice Marden: Plane Image, A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings, which was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and which later traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Formerly art critic for the Village Voice and contributing editor for Art in America, Peter Schjeldahl has worked as the critic-in-residence for The New Yorker since 1998. Robert Storr is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. He was formerly Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2002, he was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. From 2005 to 2007, he was Director of Visual Art for the Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She was formerly a curator at The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Scholar, writer, and curator Helen Molesworth is Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Previously, she was the Barbara Lee Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston. David Zwirner opened his eponymous gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York in 1993. With locations currently in New York (Chelsea) and London (Mayfair), the gallery represents close to fifty artists and estates.