Luc Tuymans
Subtitle: intolerance
By: Lynne Cooke, Tommy Simoens
Contributors: Cooke, Lynne, curator, editor; Simoens, Tommy, editor; AlRiwaq Doha (Exhibition space : Dawḥah, Qatar); Qatar Museums Authority
Publisher: Ludion; Qatar Museums
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9789491819353
Subjects: Interviews; Belgian Painting; Exhibitions
Other titles: Intolerance
Description: Spanning some thirty years, Luc Tuymans exhibition, Intolerance, speaks to certain abiding preoccupations the Belgian painter has long mined in counterpoint with a rapidly changing world. Well aware from the outset of his career that painting as an art-form was widely considered in crisis and that the role and ubiquity of the image in contemporary culture was radically shifting as a consequence of proliferating technological developments, Tuymans adopted a contestatory position. In a contrarian move, painting became for him a vehicle through which the most urgent and volatile issues, whether relating to history, identity, nationalism and belief, or to head-line social and political events could be eloquently probed. Organized around key thematics in Tuymans stringent practice, this ambitious retrospective will cast new light on his singular trajectory.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Qatar Museums at QM Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, October 18, 2015 - January 30, 2016.

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