La Pelle - Luc Tuymans
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Curated by
Ms. Bourgeois named the exhibition, "the skin" in Italian, after Italian writer Curzio Malaparte’s 1949 novel. It featured 80 works from the Pinault Collection, international museums and private collections that the Belgian artist made between 1986 and the present. In no chronological order, "La Pelle" set up a dialogue between his conceptual and expressive works based on an original layout and contrasts. For the show, in the palace atrium he created Schwarzheide, an imposing marble mosaic reproducing his eponymous 1986 work named after a Second World War German labour camp. The exhibition allowed to understand the artist's project on the duality of our world, both warlike and peaceful.
The event belonged to the series of monographic and carte blanche exhibitions devoted to major contemporary artists that the Palazzo Grassi has hosted since 2012 in alternation with the thematic exhibitions of the Pinault Collection.
Artworks in the La Pelle - Luc Tuymans exhibition
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Still Life
2002
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The Book
2007
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Simulation
2007
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Hut
1998
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Frozen
2003
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Brokaat
2016
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Mountains
2016
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Twenty Seventeen
2017
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Baroque
2017
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Pigeons
2018
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The Valley
2007
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Bedroom
2014
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