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Tuymans, Luc (Artist/Subject); Molesworth, Helen; Grynsztejn, Madeleine & Other Contributors : Luc Tuymans: The Wexner Center For The Arts Exhibition Monograph

San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art/Wexner Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2009

ISBN 1933045981

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 228 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the best books on the art and achievement of Luc Tuymans ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run as hardcover original that was not be reissued once all of the copies were sold. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Luc Tuymans and Takaaki Matsumoto: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 5 pounds. Pale gray cloth boards, as issued. Art by Luc Tuymans. Text by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Cantz in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark travelling exhibition that commenced at the Wexner Center for the Arts on September 17, 2009 and travelled on to San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, and Brussels, the artist's home city, in 2010 and 2011. Presents "Luc Tuymans". The single most comprehensive and illuminating retrospective of the immensely influential art of Luc Tuymans. At a time when painting is no longer the dominant art form it used to be, Tuymans remains committedly and defiantly a painter. "Tuymans articulates a Modern tradition that gives equal weight to the dazed German Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich and the wide-awake Parisian modernity of Manet, bridging a fault line that still divides the soul of Western taste. He is Manet-like in his smart synopsis of borrowed images. His smoldering colors are Friedrichian: Pale blue-greens, wan oranges, dusty lavender, violet, muddy vermillion" (Peter Schjeldahl). Tuymans famously begins and finishes each of his paintings in a single day (some of those days must be very long indeed). In the early, preliminary, and tentative hours of each work, he has described the experience as "horrific" (his word). "It's like I don't know what I'm doing but I know how to do it, and it's very strange" (Luc Tuymans). Peter Schjeldahl has expressed enormous admiration for this ascetically self-imposed work ethic/method: "Now that - uncertain ends, confident means - is about as good a general definition of creativity as I know. It illuminates and justifies Tuymans' eccentric work rule, with its distant redolence of Jackson Pollock's odd decision to paint in the air above a canvas. He may convey a very dim view of the world today and scant trust in our capacity to cope with it. But if you like painting enough, you will gamely tolerate the bitter flavor of this artist's amazingly intoxicating brew". An absolute "must-have" title for Luc Tuymans collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Luc Tuymans. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce signed copy thus. 75 color plates supplemented with reference materials. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1933045981.

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