Luc Tuymans
Experience the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans in his first U.S. retrospective--and the most comprehensive presentation of his art to date.
Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is considered one of the most significant European painters of his generation, and he has been an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. Born and raised in Antwerp, where he lives and works, Tuymans is an inheritor to the vast tradition of Northern European painting and draws on this heritage in his work. His distinctive compositions make ingenious use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing, offering fresh perspectives on the medium of painting, as well as larger cultural issues. Tuymans’s paintings might initially suggest relatively innocuous depictions of everyday life, but there is almost always another meaning lurking beneath the surface. The artist’s more recent work addresses the postcolonial situation in the Congo and the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11; these series have led Tuymans to a sustained investigation of the realms of the pathological and the conspiratorial.
Luc Tuymans fills all the Wexner Center’s galleries and highlights the fluid progression of the artist’s work. Because his career began with filmmaking, Tuymans’s painting approach often suggests montage, as one image links to another, and additional meaning is conveyed by the pieces’ adjacency. The retrospective reunites paintings in the groupings originally set out by the artist and so conveys the original dialogue among the works. The presentation also demonstrates how Tuymans’s tendency to work in suites and at an ever-larger scale align his work with current installation and site-specific art.
This exhibition was organized by the Wexner Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 North High Street
Columbus, OH
43210
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Local Number: (614) 292-0330
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General Information: info@wexarts.org
Hours
Sunday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
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Admission
General Public: 5.00
Memebrs: FREE
College student (with id): FREE
Under 18: FREE
Events Dates:
9/17/2009 -
1/3/2010
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Parking
General Parking: 1.00