The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin

A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney.

This publication documents Zeng Fanzhi's exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles in early 2023. The book is designed to show full works along with 1:1 details to give readers an in-depth glimpse into Zeng's command of his medium and his wet-on-wet technique, emphasizing the materiality of his painting and affording insights into his colorful, labyrinthine brushwork. The scholarly essays look at the artist's recent work from various perspectives: Carter Ratcliff discusses it in relatio...

“…when I paint, I lose track of time and I step outside myself to a certain degree. While making a series of paintings I can’t even remember what happens during the days.“

For an artist who paints without a preconceived plan Harry Markusse is very well organised. On his ‘quests for a pleasing relationship between colour, form and space’ he makes sure that circumstances are such -in time and space- that the right conditions are present. This way he can afford to lose track of ti...

Jacob Ydema (1901–1990) was a versatile artist. His oeuvre consists of murals and stained glass in more than thirty churches and other buildings, over 200 paintings and drawings, as well as works in textiles and on metal. Ydema is considered one of the most important representatives of the Dutch so-called Expressionist Baroque style of the period between the two world wars. His artistic program, however, soon departed from the naturalistic rendering of his subjects. Over the years he develo...

The Surrealists made abundant use of photography, and some even devoted themselves to it entirely. But Magritte never considered himself a 'photographer' - he reserved this practice for special moments and specific uses: family photos, models for paintings and advertising work, photos of paintings in progress, and scenes improvised with friends. Nevertheless, Magritte's photographs and films are closely related to his paintings and demonstrate a similar methos in their grasp on reality.

Matthijs Maris initially acquired fame as a painter in the style of the The Hague School, just like his famous brothers Jacob and Willem. However, over the years he abandoned this realistic palette for more introverted and symbolic themes and started portraying dreamy children, young people on the verge of adulthood, fairytale figures and mythical landscapes using an increasingly smudged painting technique. Even in his own time, Maris was admired at home and abroad by collectors and artists i...

Even though peeing is something we all do several times a day, it is still a taboo subject. From an early age, we are taught to master our urinary urges and to use decent words for this most necessary physiological activity. This paradox has not gone unnoticed by artists through the ages.

For this Relief, Much Thanks! Peeing in Art is a journey through time and space, stopping along the way to look at many different art forms. The reader-viewer will see how peeing figures – men and women, y...

Elke Andreas Boon's art explores a duality of unruly fragility and reflection, tackling existential themes like religion, gender, and power structures. Her work, rooted in art tradition, undergoes subtle transformations, creating new contexts and combining brutal questioning with surreal humor. Boon’s oeuvre, spanning over twenty-five years, is noted for its relevance and aesthetic richness, addressing universal issues like identity and loneliness. S.M.A.K director Philippe Van Cauteren pra...

Art critics commonly describe the work of Belgian artist Jef Geys (1934-2018) as “unruly, and impossible to categorize in conventional art-historical categories.” Despite Geys’ subversive and critical attitude towards the art world, this ambitious publication shows that his work is not only deeply engaged and socially critical but also funny and sensory.

Since the early 1960s Geys had compiled an archive of everything he considered part of his artistic practice in to form of his ‘List...