Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans, a Belgian painter with a robust background in photography and drawing, probes the murky interstices of history and memory. Adopting an intentionally hazy pictorial language, he extracts scenes from photographs and media, employing swift, ephemeral brushwork to confront the elusiveness of evil and morality. His canvases, often completed in one fervid session, radiate an unsettling calm, gesturing towards the disquiet beneath the veneer of the mundane.