Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s.
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.
The Belgian artist-- once a savvy player in the '90s resusitation of figurative painting-- is now an influential fixture in the art world, known for his subdued, often sickly palette, his strange compositions, and his witholding of excpected details like facial features. Such formal idiosyncracies are brought to into relief by the luminous patina of his works... The image, solemnly elegant, shows Tuymans regarding something blankly-- his work? a screen? the viewer? Among the many questions it raises is the one that Tuymans can always be counted on to provoke: "Is something wrong?"--Johanna Fateman "Bookforum"
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