Luc Tuymans

This catalogue documents a Luc Tuymans exhibition, presenting paintings drawn from the artist's ongoing practice of working from found photographs and film stills toward pale, deliberately incomplete images.

Published in 2009, the book reproduces the exhibited paintings with accompanying essays that read them against Tuymans's recurring subjects, memory, mediation, and the historical weight carried by ordinary-looking images. As with his other museum publications, the emphasis falls on how little the paintings appear to show and how much that withholding is doing.

Tuymans has had this kind of institutional catalogue produced around nearly every major show since the 1990s, and this volume sits within that pattern rather than standing as a career-spanning survey.