Luc Tuymans : birds of a feather /
Tuymans, Luc,1958-artist,interviewee.
Mayne, Kate,1973-editor.
Chinnery, Colin,1971-author.
Container of (work):Self, Will.Shore.
Talbot Rice Gallery,host institution.
David Zwirner LTD,host institution.
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. Exhibition: Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (31.10-19.12.2015).
"This publication marks two important Luc Tuymans exhibitions staged in two UK capital cities, London and Edinburgh. Although in different venues, The Shore at David Zwirner in London and Birds of a Feather at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, the exhibitions are united by a theme of Enlightenment; a theme that is explored by the artist through politically complex but elusive means"--Foreword.
The British writer Will Self wrote a short story for The Shore, and the art critic Colin Siyuan Chinnery has contributed an explanatory essay for Birds of a Feather.
Includes "In painting, you can't go back", a conversation between Will Self and Luc Tuymans held March 6, 2015 at the David Zwirner Gallery in London.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 102-104).
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. Exhibition: Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (31.10-19.12.2015).
Tuymans, Luc, 1958-
Tuymans, Luc, 1958-
Portrait painting, Belgian
Painting, Belgian
Philosophers
Painting, Belgian.
Philosophers.
Portrait painting, Belgian.