Zayin

Limited edition letterpress printed book with 13 screenprints by Luc Tuymans.

Luc Tuymans is a contemporary Belgian painter whose work is concerned with the mediation of images. He typically re-photographs his source material to degrade the image before using it to make a painting. Like his paintings, the thirteen screenprints in this book are grainy and indistinct images of ordinary objects and places, such as lamps and corridors, executed in faded colors. These, however, can be seen as an attempt by Tuymans to atone for the complicity of his countrymen during World War II. Tuymans' illustrations match the somber tone of Wilfried Adams' Dutch language poems.

The book's binding was created by Luc Jansen in Edegem, Belgium. It is a hardcover sewn binding covered in tan-colored cloth, with the title stamped in gold on the cover.

This work is numbered 28 and signed in pencil by the author and artist at the colophon.