Luc Tuymans, “Iphone,” 2008, oil on canvas, 44.88 x 34.06 inches. Courtesy of David Zwirner. Gareth Harris’s interview with Luc Tuymans at The Art Newspaper covers both Tuymans’s art practice and hopeful career strategies. Tuymans�s first major Russian show opens at the Red October Chocolate Factory this month. Twenty new […]
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Luc Tuymans and Mickey Mouse
Luc Tuymans is, as they say, a painter’s painter, and in his show at Zwirner, his new paintings glow. Zwirner’s press release explains that Tuymans has turned his attention to Walt Disney’s legacy, examining how the animation studio grew into a family-oriented media giant with quasi-utopian ambitions. Zwirner asserts that […]
Tuymans the new Mr. Big
On everyone’s list of favorite painters, Luc Tuymans is usually near the top. His early abstract-ish paintings, small and wan, were nothing if not winning…but does the old formula (near-monochromatic color, sketchy brushwork, mysterious fading imagery) still work when the scale is monumental? Zwirner’s press release explains that Tuymans has […]