Jan Vercruysse 2009

de Jan Vercruysse

Jan Vercruysse (b. 1948, Ostend, Belgium) is one of the most influential Belgian artists. With his Tombeau series, he was internationally acknowledged in the eighties. This publication presents the most complete retrospective of this works up to now. All series that he made in the periode 1977-2009 are shown, either with a selection of images, or with the complete series. The accompanying texts by Pascal Rousseau and Jan Vercruysse are now for the first time published in an English or Dutch translation, including the interview from 1989 by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev for Flash Art. Exhibition: Museum M, Leuven, 20/9-6/12/2009.