‘I can resist everything,’ wrote Oscar Wilde, ‘except temptation.’ What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.
Richly illustratied with works by Rob Birza, Michaël Borremans, Kerstin Brätsch, Varda Caivano, Giorgio de Chirico, Bill Copley, Walter Dahn, René Daniëls, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Jana Euler, Ricardo van Eyk, Lucio Fontana, Bernard Frize, Philip Guston, Eberhard Havekost, Mary Heilmann, Charline von Heyl, Gary Hume, Natasja Kensmil, Raoul De Keyser, Martin Kippenberger, Thoralf Knobloch, Willem de Kooning, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Rik Meijers, Edvard Munch, Navid Nuur, Paulina Olowksa, Blinky Palermo, Avery Preesman. R.H. Quaytman, Michael Raedecker, Neo Rauch, Daniël Richter, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Jessica Stockholder, Luc Tuymans, Floris Verster, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Ina van Zyl.