Luc Tuymans, Superstition

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Luc Tuymans (Belgian, b. 1958)

Superstition, 2005

Medium: Screenprint in 5 colors on Somerset paper

Dimensions: 40 x 32 cm

Edition of 100 + 5 A.P.: Hand signed and numbered in pencil

Publisher: Monopol Magazine, Berlin

Printer: Roger Vandaele, Antwerp

Catalogue raisonné: “Luc Tuymans – Graphic Works 1989 – 2012”, pp. 162/163

Condtition: Excellent (unframed)

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Luc Tuymans’ Superstition is based on his oil painting from 1994, measuring 46.7 x 41.9 cm. It was first exhibited at his Superstition shows at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main (August 19 – August 22 1994) and at David Zwirner in New York (October 29 – December 3 1994). In 2004, the painting was exhibited as part of Luc Tuymans’ mid-career retrospective at the Tate Modern in London (23 June – 26 September 2004).

“Tuymans has described Superstition as a painting about art and transgression. He has said that he often makes his paintings appear clumsy, and ‘deprived of aesthetics’ so that there is more focus on meaning: ‘Superstition could be a nom de plume for art. Art that transgresses, that transmits. The insect in Superstition sucks you in. It’s almost shamanistic.’” – Tate Modern, 2004.

“The insect (“Superstition”) with its incredible size and color, covers the figure, like a projected black-out of the spectator. Is the insect as a species not the element ‘par excellence’ to translate anonymity? The grateful image offers the determined shape and enormity of a hostile mutant. He or she, who suffers from arachnophobia, unconsciously enlarges the real subject of their fear to unknown proportions. The insect hides this surrender.” – Robert Van Ruysevelt in “Superstition. Luc Tuymans”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 1994.

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters of his generation. With his muted palette, limited to pale pastel shades with a frequent brown or grey undertone, Tuymans creates small-format pictures of everyday objects, architecture, cropped landscapes and frequently, also mask-like people. By employing this blurry and choppy painting technique, the artist renders pre-existing images from photographs, film and television, of historically charged subject matter. Interested in the mediation and translation of images through mass media, Luc Tuymans often investigates cultural memory of historical events that have had a major impact on human action and thought, such as the two world wars, Belgian colonialism, and 9/11. The Belgian’s artworks are featured in museum collections worldwide, including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Tate, London. Luc Tuymans was born in Mortsel, near Antwerp, in 1958.

Luc Tuymans, Superstition

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