Abel Tournissoux

Abel Tournissoux, Paris, Lord Byron Editions, 2025

First edition
Edition of 25 signed and numbered copies, from I to XXV
Each copy is accompanied by an original work by the artist
Hardcover, 23 x 28 cm, 192 pages
Bilingual edition: French, English
Translations by John Barrett
ISBN: 978-2-488446-02-0

Abel Tournissoux is the first monograph on the Franco-Belgian painter Abel Tournissoux.
Published in collaboration with the Au Cube gallery, founded by David Biard, the book features a foreword by collector Hubert Neumann, alongside texts by Amélie Adamo and painter Axel Pahlavi.

“Abel sidesteps the trap of reproduction and image-making to create painting. By multiplying actions and diverse modes of writing, Abel at times compresses time, at other times stretches it. It is within this temporal space of painting that the image truly becomes embodied, that it comes to life. The pulse of painting—one cannot quite say by what magic it begins to beat, or not. Yet the miracle of this presence, this life, always seems to occur in a space in-between. On a tenuous boundary. Between strategy and truth, between reality and fiction, between fragment and wholeness.” (Excerpt from Amélie Adamo’s text)

Born in 1994 in Mâcon (France), Abel Tournissoux is a figurative painter living and working in Brussels. He trained at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges (ENSA Bourges), then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (ARBA-ESA), where he worked in the studio of Stephan Balleux. He is currently represented in France by the Au Cube gallery.

Amélie Adamo is an author, art critic, and exhibition curator. Her doctoral thesis in contemporary art history led to the publication of A History of Painting in the 1980s in France by Klincksieck Editions in 2010. In 2011, she published Métamorphoses du sacré: on Vladimir Velickovic with Galilée Editions. She is a regular contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and to specialist journals such as Le Journal des Arts, Verso Arts et Lettres, Art Absolument, Artension, and the magazine L’Œil, where she is a permanent contributor. Committed to supporting emerging artists while also reflecting on the work of renowned figures, she curates exhibitions in both galleries and museum institutions. Her curatorial focus lies predominantly on figurative painting, where she explores issues of memory and transmission, of hybridity and cultural blending. In parallel with her critical work, she has also taught contemporary art history at university and in art schools.

Born in 1931 in Chicago, Hubert Neumann is a prominent American art collector and patron, responsible for the “Neumann Family Collection,” an art collection initiated by his father, Morton G. Neumann.

Axel Pahlavi was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He received the Pierre Bonnard Prize in 2007, the First Antoine Marin Prize in 2009, and the painting fellowship awarded by the Roux and Tronchet Foundations at the Institut de France, also in 2009. Since 2002, he has exhibited regularly in France, Germany, the United States, and Greece. Notably, he participated in the major exhibition “Immortelle,” organized at MO.CO in Montpellier in 2023 by Numa Hambursin and Amélie Adamo, which gathered the majority of the French figurative scene. In September 2024, Thomas Levy-Lasne invited him to take part in the “Day of the Painters” at the Musée d’Orsay. His works are included in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Maeght Foundation, the Salomon Foundation, the Frissiras Museum in Athens, and the Jerry Speyer Collection in New York.