LUC TUYMANS

Spanning some thirty years, Luc Tuymans exhibition, Intolerance, speaks to certain abiding preoccupations the Belgian painter has lo ng mined in counterpoint with a rapidly changing world. Well aware from the outset of his career that painting as an art-form was wi dely considered in crisis and that the role and ubiquity of the image in contemporary culture was radically shifting as a consequenc e of proliferating technological developments, Tuymans adopted a contestatory position. In a contrarian move, painting became for hi m a vehi...[Leer más]