Luc Tuymans (Contemporary Artists) by Ulrich Loock

By Ulrich Loock

Tuymans' monochromatic palette and selection of subject material - household interiors, usual items or relatives pics - hyperlink portray with post-war filmmaking and novice images. The resources of different photos on his canvases provide his paintings a brooding violence. even supposing modest in scale and delicate in execution, this paintings is strong in its haunting evocation of misplaced lives and repressed histories. in most cases Tuymans' works are painted in teams for every express and with the venue and the exhibition area in brain. for instance, whilst he represented his state within the Belgian Pavilion on the 2001 Venice Biennial, Tuymans produced a cycle of works in response to the homicide of the 1st post-independence top Minister of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba. different works within the cycle exhibit pictures of African sculpture copies from a statue in a Belgian eating place and pictures from the Belgian Royal Museum's African assortment. those works raised matters approximately colonialism and post-colonialism, but additionally got here at a time whilst a parliamentary fee was once investigating the hyperlinks among the Belgian executive and royal family's guidelines and the demise of Lumumba.

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Indeed, Smithson's description suggests a model of the art magazine not as a single, unified field of discourse, but as a fractured, heterogeneous space in which multiple, overlapping, and contradictory types of communication compete and collide. Such heterogeneity and multiplicity have been central to theories of alternative or counterpublic spheres. In their 1972 book Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung (The Public Sphere and Experience), Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge point to the many alternative sites of publicity that arose alongside and in opposition to the dominant universal, homogenous public sphere described by Habermas.

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