Footnote:
Colophon: "Published by David Zwirner Books on the occasion of Luc Tuymans: Good Luck, David Zwirner ...Hong Kong October 27-December 19, 2020."
Includes bibliographic references (page 51)
Description:
Plates -- The path of globalization and its footnote: on Luc Tuymans's Encounter with China / Su Wei -- The forbidden empire / Luc Tuymans -- Precise paintings of the uncertain / Éric de Chassey.
Exploring diverse and sensitive topics, many of which include historic references from World War II to more contemporary events such as 9/11, Tuymans presents imagery that at first seems innocuous or approachable but upon deeper inspection can be entirely unsettling. Achieved through his masterful handling of paint, his works are often suggestive of memories or familiar people, places, and things. The latest in the Spotlight Series, which focuses on new bodies of work by contemporary artists, Tuymans continues to take on increasingly complex subject matters in his primarily muted palette. Published on the occasion of the artist’s 2020 solo exhibition at David Zwirner Hong Kong, this book features an essay by art critic Su Wei, who approaches Tuymans’s newest paintings and how they expand his oeuvre