"Luc Tuymans, who was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, and lives and works in Antwerp, has transformed the territory of painting in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Using photographs and images from film and other media, he tackles a breadth of subjects and motifs, including contemporary politics, cataclysmic historical events, art history, and apparently banal everyday objects and environments, with paintings that are redolent with atmosphere and poetic power."
"Tuymans's process of finding the images and deciding how to transform them is slow and precise, and worked through in various stages before it reaches the canvas, where he makes the final piece in oil on a single day. In the resulting pictures, the motif can be veiled or oblique, and sometimes close to abstract, and he has used the term "authentic forgeries" to describe them."
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, and lives and works in Antwerp. He reshaped late-20th and 21st-century painting by using photographs, film stills, and media images to address contemporary politics, catastrophic history, art history, and everyday banality. His method is slow, precise, staged across multiple preparatory phases, with final oil paintings executed in a single day. Motifs in his work are often veiled, oblique, or near-abstract, described by him as "authentic forgeries" and reflecting painting's elusiveness and "belatedness." His work interrogates subjective and collective memory and draws on influences from Mondrian, Spilliaert, Goya, Gericault, Rothko, literature, and film.
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