Luc

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel, Belgium) is known for his distinctive paintings that demonstrate images’ power to simultaneously communicate and withhold. Based on preexisting imagery culled from various sources, and rendered in muted, hazy palettes, his large-scale canvases undermine and reinvent traditional notions of monumentality through their insistence on ambiguity. A solo exhibition of Tuymans’s […]


Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel, Belgium) is known for his distinctive paintings that demonstrate images’ power to simultaneously communicate and withhold. Based on preexisting imagery culled from various sources, and rendered in muted, hazy palettes, his large-scale canvases undermine and reinvent traditional notions of monumentality through their insistence on ambiguity. A solo exhibition of Tuymans’s work, La Pelle, was held at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 2019. Major international surveys have been organized by the Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha (2015); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009–2011); Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2009); and Tate, London (2004). His work is held in public collections worldwide.

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