Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans (born 14 June 1958) is an artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans is said to be one of the most influential painters working today.
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| Born | 14 June 1958 Mortsel, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Field | Contemporary art |
Life
Tuymans was born in Mortsel, Belgium. He began his studies at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels in 1976. He then studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels, Belgium (1979–1980) and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium (1980–1982). He stopped painting in 1982 and began studying art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1982–6).[1] The Belgian government gave him the title of Commander, Order of Leopold in 2007. He is married to Venezuelan artist Carla Arocha.
Exhibitions
Tuymans represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2001. He has been the focus of several retrospectives at various international institutions, including the Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest, Hungary; Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany; the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland; the Tate Modern, London, England (2004); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland (both 2006); and, most recently (2011) the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The artist’s first U.S. retrospective opened in September 2009 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Collections
Work by the artist is in the public collections of various museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and the Tate Gallery, London.
Art market
In 2005, Sculpture (2000), part of Tuymans' Mwana Kitoko: Beautiful White Man series, was sold at Christie's New York, for $1,472,000.[2]
Luc Tuymans Media
Luc Tuymans, Antichambre, 1985Oil on canvas, 69.9 × 80.1 cm, 271⁄2 × 319⁄16 inches, Collection M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp – Collection of the Flemish Community
Luc Tuymans, Body, 1990Oil on canvas, 48.5 × 38.5 cm, 19 1⁄8 × 15 1⁄4 inches, Collection S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Luc Tuymans, Der diagnostische Blick IV, 1992. Oil on canvas, 57 × 38.2 cm, 22 1⁄2 × 15 1⁄8 inches, Private collection, on long-term loan to De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Luc Tuymans, Lumumba, 2000, oil on canvas, 62 × 46 cm, 24 3⁄8 × 18 1⁄8 inches, Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Luc Tuymans, The Shore, 2014Oil on canvas, 194.2 × 353.7 cm, 761⁄2 × 1391⁄4 inches, Collection Tate Modern, London.Presented by the artist and David Zwirner, 2016
Luc Tuymans talks about his triptych mural St. Croce, 2010, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Luc Tuymans, Dead Skull, 2010MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp
References
- ↑ Luc Tuymans MoMA Collection, New York.
- ↑ Luc Tuymans, Sculpture (2000) Christie's 11 May 2005, New York.