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Philippe Vandenberg: Absence, etc.
Edited by Wouter Davidts.
Published by Hauser & Wirth
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The first monograph on Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg since his death in 2009, this book offers a rich and novel entry to his variegated oeuvre. Conceived of as a chronological portfolio of Vandenberg’s paintings and drawings, this lavishly illustrated book invites the reader to discover the artist’s adventurous and vacillating career, as he regularly shifted directions and took stylistic and formal detours, from figurative expression to lyrical abstraction, graffiti-like and comics-informed figuration to monochromes, and finally resorting to word- and text-based paintings.