Jan Van Imschoot: The End is Never Near

Jan Van Imschoot is a Belgian painter whose work combines contemporary style with historical themes from literature and art history. This book provides a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre, featuring over 220 works and five accompanying texts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2023
Publisher: Yale University Press

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 Imschoots 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. Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Weight: 1442g
Dimension: 306 x 228 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300266986