Luc Tuymans

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• Luc Tuymans’s work has revolved around questions that are central both to painting and to the formation of our own attitudes: what must images be like if they are to pose a counterweight to the progressive disintegration of historical identity, remembrance, and a memory which is connected to the substantial reality of place? And how must they look if it is also to be clear that they do not, anachronistically, seek to restore a linear and casual vision of history? Confronted with this double mission, all artistic decisions become acts of ambivalence, rehearsals of the shimmering and opalescent double status of the image, which always shows something and at the same time veils and withholds it. Tuymans himself has commented on this phenomenon in an interview: “In order to show something, I p... (查看原文)

  韭子 2020-01-04 02:24:12

• For Luc Tuymans the art of painting is not the result of being directly “moved” by reality. It is not “realistic” in the sense of being connected to life in its immediacy. Conscious of the fact that all kinds of limitations create an enormous distance between depiction and reality and ensure that the motif for a painting is always a mental “still,” Tuymans does not work “immediately” but always uses a fragmentary recollection as his basis. External reality does not exhibit itself as something clear that can be replicated in the mind as a perfect image; it is rather the experiencing of a continuous inconsistent flow of physically embodied perceptions and sensations, which in one way or another are sorted and assembled into coherent but temporary models of reality. Tuymans draws on the imagi... (查看原文)

  韭子 2020-01-04 02:26:56

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