Luc
Tuymans
Luc
Tuymans
Tuymans
Luc Tuymans, the "philosopher-thug of contemporary painting" according to the critic Jarrett Earnest, is a major figure on today's international scene. His figurative paintings, in dialogue with photography and art history, radically question the human condition through violent subjects.
After leaving painting to devote himself to photography and film, Tuymans returned to it in 1985 for his first solo exhibition at the Palais de Termes in Ostend, west of Bruges. But it was in the 1990s that he gained great renown with his participation in the Documenta IX in Kassel and his exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Bern, in 1992. "I don't want to make art for art itself, but a history painting, or rather a painting of memory and trauma," he explains. His approach to image brings him closer to the approaches of Gerhard Richter and Marlene Dumas: he chooses archive images from the media, the cinema or found on the Internet, which he then photographs with his smartphone or Polaroid. What he paints then appears more and more enigmatic, mysterious, as if suspended in time.
The works of Luc Tuymans were first shown by the Pinault Collection during the 2006 exhibition « Where Are We Going? » at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
After leaving painting to devote himself to photography and film, Tuymans returned to it in 1985 for his first solo exhibition at the Palais de Termes in Ostend, west of Bruges. But it was in the 1990s that he gained great renown with his participation in the Documenta IX in Kassel and his exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Bern, in 1992. "I don't want to make art for art itself, but a history painting, or rather a painting of memory and trauma," he explains. His approach to image brings him closer to the approaches of Gerhard Richter and Marlene Dumas: he chooses archive images from the media, the cinema or found on the Internet, which he then photographs with his smartphone or Polaroid. What he paints then appears more and more enigmatic, mysterious, as if suspended in time.
The works of Luc Tuymans were first shown by the Pinault Collection during the 2006 exhibition « Where Are We Going? » at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
