Luc Tuymans
Subtitle: glasses
By: [authors, Pavel Büchler, Ken Pratt, Eric Rinckhout]
Contributors: Büchler, Pavel; Pratt, K. J.; Rinckhout, Eric; Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerp, Belgium); National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: BAI Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kontich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9789085867258
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Glasses
Work titles: Paintings
Description: In Glasses, Luc Tuymans and the MAS bring together an exquisite selection of more than twenty works. They include portraits, both of 'nameless people' and of historical figures, and other works, and they have never been seen together before. The selection includes iconic works from Tuymans' oeuvre, whose major themes include Nazism, colonialism and nationalism. In the series Die Zeit, the SS man Heydrich hides his face behind dark glasses, the young Baudouin steps off a plane in Léopoldville concealed by his sunglasses, the laughing American family man Milteer, with eyes wide open behind his glasses, is an extremist and racist, and the face of Flemish author Ernest Claes becomes a kind of blank mask with glasses. Exhibition: MAS, Antwerp, Belgium (13.05-18.09.2016).
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Luc Tuymans. Glasses, at MAS/Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, from 13 May to 18 September 2016 and at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 4 October 2016 to 26 March 2017"--Colophon.

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