"Tuymans' monochromatic palette and his choice of subject matter - domestic interiors, commonplace objects and family portraits - link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of images on many of his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, his work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed histories. In general, Tuymans' works ..."
"Over the past 30 years, Swiss artist Erik Steinbrecher (born 1963) has been collecting and compiling photographs, illustrated books, newspaper and magazine photographs, archival footage and montages. This book provides a glimpse into his extensive collection in an associative collage."
"Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett No. 60 features Chuck Close, Diana Thater, and Luc Tuymans, three artists from very different backgrounds whose works have all moved towards painting's basic elements of light and dark. Contributing writers include Francine Prose and Richard Shiff on Close; Sara Arrhenius, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Regina Hasslinger on Thater; and Laura ..."
"Fast-rising painter Avery Preesman (b. 1968) is self-taught, his only training consisting of the guidance he received at the Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1992 to 1994. Preesman is the recipient of the first Theo Wolvecamp prize and was cited by Chris Dercon, director of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum for "the open and original way in which (he) breaks new ground in Dutch painting and his invigorating approach to painting in general." T ..."
"Deep in the magical semi-darkness of forests and jungles, through the impenetrable yet bright green of the trees, tangled up in tropical plants, rampant jungle vegetation, and mossy brooks, lies paradise. At least it does in Thomas Struth's New Pictures from Paradise, in which each oversize image is a mesmerizing but photographically distant haven unto itself. From Daintree, Australia to Yunnan Province, China, from the mossy valleys of ..."
"The latest works by Swiss photographer, sculptor and installation artist Bernard Voïta (born 1960) are presented in this publication. Known for his playfully abstracted black-and-white photographs from the 1990s, this publication highlights how Voïta has translated his witty deceptions to three-dimensional space. "
"Swiss artist Maja Weyermann (born 1962) creates computer-generated images of simulated architectural interiors, which cite icons of design and film history such as well-known private homes and scenes from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." This monograph features Weyermann's most recent large-scale works."
"The paintings, drawings and films of Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (born 1963) seem to suspend humans above the logic of their actions, so that the simplest gesture or movement is emptied of sense and made arbitrary, tense and uneasily beautiful. Sometimes Borremans makes a garment the hero of the work, as in his well-known painting of a young woman with a bow: eye-catching as the subject's introspective facial expression undoubtedly ..."
"In this artist's book, Welsh artist Bethan Huws (born 1961) compiles her years of research into Marcel Duchamp. Composed of notes, critical commentary and photographs, the volume constitutes an ambitious associative framework or map of key themes and patterns in Duchamp's oeuvre."
"A plastic cap is placed carefully over a prim woman's hair. Three men wearing lab coats bend intensely over an equal number of women, examining their pupils. Two serious, smart women contemplate a white table. A man in a suit and tie smirks lightly while holding pairs of red spheres, perhaps cherries, between his fingers. A middle-aged schoolmarm sketches a windmill on the naked back of a small, brown-haired child. The figures in Michaë ..."
"Thanks to the large number of paintings received from the Bockmann Collection, the Neues Museum now boasts the world's third-largest collection of works by Gerhard Richter - designed by the artist himself -, that it is proudly presenting for the first time - in this publication."
"From early architectural models and theatrical constructions to houses and utilitarian design, the sculpture of Thomas Schütte (born 1954) has pursued all categories of the medium; his website organizes his oeuvre into Houses, Bunkers, Monuments, Animals, Spirits, Jokes, Fruits and Vegetables, Women, Men, Flowers and Vases. This book spans 30 years of his practice."
"Following the exhibitions at Bonner Kunstverein and Kunsthaus Glarus in 2012 and 2013, this is the first monograph dedicated to the Swiss artist Luca Frei (b. 1976). In his artistic practice―from installations, sculptures, drawings and paintings to exhibition design―Frei questions and revisits ideas and speculations about modernist forms. In particular, his interest is aimed at their potential to foster new perception and audience respo ..."