Luc Tuymans (Belgian, b. 1958)
Wenn der Frühling kommt (When Spring Comes), 2007
Medium: Portfolio with 17 digital pigment prints on semi-transparent paper, mounted onto heavy rag paper
Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm (19.75 x 15.75″) each
Edition of 50 + 8 AP: Hand signed and numbered on colophon page
Condition: Excellent. The sheets loose (as issued), contained in the original card portfolio with linen spine and printed title.
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Luc Tuymans’ portfolio Wenn der Frühling kommt (When Spring Comes) was published on the occasion of the homonymous retrospective at Haus der Kunst, Munich, in 2008. The exhibition showed a comprehensive overview of Tuymans’ body of work. One of his generation’s most important painters, Tuymans became known for his paintings of political and historical events. In his distinctive muted color palette, Luc Tuymans creates images of collective memory, including historical motifs and those of everyday life.
“An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.” – Luc Tuymans
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.
