A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot (b. 1963), whose contemporary work builds bridges to predecessors such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Goya, and Manet. Van Imschoot's painting consciously opts for a clear, sometimes contradictory and ironic style. The directness of his decisive brushwork and his balanced yet audacious use of color is strikingly contemporary, while his work draws on historical themes from literature and art history. In this way, Van Imschoot engages in a continuous dialogue with the past, in which he, with a dose of cynicism, often targets phenomena or figures that find themselves on the fringes of (contemporary) society. Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master.

This book highlights a rich blend of acclaimed Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere's (1960, Gent, Belgium) earlier and newer works, interwoven with artistic dialogues featuring figures like Lucas Cranach, Peter Buggenhout, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Patti Smith.

Il s'agit de la première monographie de l'artiste belge Peter Buggenhout, qui expose aujourd'hui dans les plus grands musées du monde. Réalisé en étroite collaboration avec lui (il a souhaité concevoir lui-même la maquette de ce monumental ouvrage comme l'extension de son travail artistique) l'ouvrage présente alternativement des pages consacrées à son oeuvre et d'autres au travers desquelles il souhaite rendre hommage à un certain nombre d'hommes - artistes, cinéastes, photographes... - célèbres ou anonymes, dont le parcours et le travail l'ont influencé, questionné, voire encouragé dans sa pratique artistique. Le livre est donc ponctué de fascicules - imprimés sur un papier vert clair afin de créer une rupture avec le reste de l'ouvrage - présentant les grandes influences auxquelles il a voulu se référer, qui s'intercalent entre les pages de reproduction de ses monumentales installations.

This comprehensive book on the work of the ?capitalistic realist? KP Brehmer, who engaged with sociopolitical issues and tackled the visual media of the BRD and the conditions of capitalist image production and reception in a complex manner, is published on the occasion of what would have been his 80th birthday. He left behind a diverse, experimental, analytic and humorous oeuvre, which poses questions that are again becoming increasingly topical. In it he made use of image material from advertising and political propaganda in the form of posters, images from public television and from magazines and newspapers, which he presented in an altered context in the form of graphic art, paintings, printed editions, books or films. 0In collaboration with the artist?s estate and his former gallerist and collector René Block, the catalogue offers a multifaceted insight into work of KP Brehmer and facilitates a revaluation of the work.00Exhibition: Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany (26.10.2018 - 17.02.2019) / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (29.03. - 23.06.2019) / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (06.07.-27.10.2019) / Arter Istanbul, Turkey (2019).

"This book documents a major exhibition by acclaimed Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964, Ghent) at Bozar-Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. De Bruyckere's powerful sculptures, installations, and drawings set out to embody the world's great stories. Drawing from the legacies of the European Old Masters and Christian iconography, as well as mythology and cultural lore, De Bruyckere is known to layer existing histories with new narratives, hereby creating a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion. The volume highlights a rich blend of her earlier and newer works, interwoven with dialogues featuring artists as diverse as Lucas Cranach, Peter Buggenhout, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Patti Smith. An original essay by Gary Carrion-Murayari delves into De Bruyckere's oeuvre, likening this convergence of voices to a khorós - the chorus central to Greek tragedies - emphasising collective human experience and emotion. With an essay by Gary Carrion-Murayari and texts by Selen Ansen, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Ory Dessau, Katrien Driesen, Joaquim Oliveira Caetano and Patti Smith .".