"Beginning with 'Gilles de Binche' (Antwerp, 2005) and concluding with 'Against the Day' (Brussels, Moscow and Malmo, 2009-10), acclaimed painter Luc Tuymans produced a landmark suite of seven thematically linked bodies of work. Their meta-narrative, which traces the philosophical and psychic roots of contemporary civilization, weaves together a range of photographic source images, from St Peter's to Disneyland to Big Brother, that toget ..."
"This exhibition will include 10 new paintings, in which Tuymans puts forth the image of a fragile America and the crumbling state of current affairs. There is a sense of delayed trauma, depicted in flat, muted hues, that shuns the obvious and circumvents easy interpretation. With a similar intensity to the exhibitions Mwana Kitoko, 2000, in which he examined the colonial history of Belgium, and Fortune, 2003, which centered on the effec ..."
"James Ensor (1860-1949) produced some of the most unusual paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Marked by psychological complexity, contradictions, and sheer eccentricity, his works--featuring such bizarre subject matter as dressed-up skeletons and macabre carnival masks--have continued to baffle and intrigue in equal measure. Ensor was born in Ostend, Belgium, and despite his success barely left his home town during his ..."
"In this stunning monograph, the internationally acclaimed Belgian painter Luc Tuymans opens up and reveals, in the form of Polaroids, film stills and other source documents, what has up until now been a largely hidden part of his artistic practice--thereby making it possible to chart both the subjects that fascinate him and his rather idiosyncratic working processes. On the one hand, Tuymans' methods are influenced by photographic techn ..."
Idyl As To Answer That Picture. by Philippe Pirotte, GerritVermeiren 69 Pages, Published 2005 by Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium ISBN-13: 978-90-76222-21-9, ISBN: 90-76222-21-5
Royal Palms Beach Club Vincent Geyskens by GerritVermeiren Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2013 by Vdh Books ISBN-13: 978-90-8881-001-5, ISBN: 90-8881-001-X