Since the exhibition of his works at the Venice Biennal and Documental1, Luc Tuymans has been internationally recognized as one of the most distinguished painters of his generation. The Belgian artist has, since the end of the 1980s,developed an extraordinarily complex body of work. With a gift that possesses a special connection to drawing, Tuymans works from material already filtered by various media to create silent images of landscape details, objects, architectures,and often masklike human figures.

Since the exhibition of his works at the Venice Biennal and Documental1, Luc Tuymans has been internationally recognized as one of the most distinguished painters of his generation. The Belgian artist has, since the end of the 1980s,developed an extraordinarily complex body of work. With a gift that possesses a special connection to drawing, Tuymans works from material already filtered by various media to create silent images of landscape details, objects, architectures,and often masklike human figures.

This publication offers a representative selection of his paintings, film stills, Polaroids, and works on paper, and presents the recent series Slide (2002) and Exhibit (2002). They are framed by two important sets of images: the cycle Die Zeit (1988),which thematizes the Nazi genocide, and the series The Passion (1998-99), in which Tuymans raises the question of the substantive core of religiosity.

BILDERDAMMERUNG

STEPHAN BERG

TWILIGHT OF THE IMAGES

STEPHAN BERG

THE ARENA

PHILIPPE PIROTTE

THE ARENA

PHILIPPE PIROTTE

IM LICHTE DER MALEREI

EIN VERSUCH, LUC TUYMANS'

SCHAFFEN ZU SEHEN ...

KONRAD BITTERLI

IN THE LIGHT OF PAINTING

AN ATTEMPT TO SEE LUC

TUYMANSPS WORK ...

KONRAD BITTERLI

NACHWORT

EPILOG

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF WORKS