In 1992, Tuymans was invited to show at the documenta for the first time.

His paintings embrace a number of formal and conceptual oppositions, echoed in Tuymans ’ s own explanation that “ sickness should appear in the way the painting is made ,” yet in “ caressing the painting ” there is also pleasure in its making.

Tuymans emerged in at a time when there were not many new contemporary painters making, or using imagistic paintings ; others include John Currin or Elizabeth Peyton.

Between 2007 and 2009 Tuymans worked on a triptych, which began with Les Revenants and Restoration ( 2007 ) about the power of the Jesuit Order ; continued with Forever.

The opening exhibition focuses on influential European painters Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger, Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, and followed with younger painters including Albert Oehlen, Wilhelm Sasnal and Thomas Scheibitz.

At documenta 11 in 2002, where the selection of work that year focused on works of art with political or social commentary, many expected Tuymans to make new works in response to the New York attacks on 11 September 2001.

* BBC radio interview with Luc Tuymans

* CNN interview with Luc Tuymans

* Ons Geluk ( with Luc Tuymans ) 1997

At the age of 19 Tuymans encountered a series of El Greco paintings in Budapest while working as a guard for a European railway company.

Two early series are the cycle Die Zeit ( Time ) ( 1988 ) about the holocaust ; Heimat ( German for ‘ homeland ’) ( 1996 ), paintings in which Tuymans sketches a wry picture of the revived self-awareness of the Flemish nationalist ; and the series Passion ( 1999 ) about the essence of religious belief.

In 2005, Sculpture ( 2000 ), part of Tuymans ' Mwana Kitoko: Beautiful White Man series, was sold at Christie's New York, for $ 1, 472, 000.

The opening exhibition focused on established European painters, including Marlene Dumas, Martin Kippenberger, Luc Tuymans and Peter Doig, who had not previously received such significant U. K. exposure.

Co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts, the MCA presented Luc Tuymans from October 2010 – January 2011.

Luc Tuymans ( born 1958 ) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today.

Tuymans was born in Mortsel near Antwerp, Belgium.

Tuymans ' subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal-wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects.

These statements are characteristic of Tuymans ’ s self-conscious and tenaciously semantic shaping of the philosophical content in his work.

Tuymans often works in series, a method whereby one image can generate another and where images can be formulated and then reformulated.

Tuymans represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Against the Day, an exhibition of works inspired by one of Tuymans ' favorite authors, Thomas Pynchon, originated at Wiels Centre d ’ Art Contemporain, Brussels, and subsequently travelled to Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, and Moderna Museet Malmö.

Luc Tuymans is represented by David Zwirner, New York.

Tuymans also curates exhibitions, and is organizing the second in a series of cross-cultural exhibitions that brings together Belgian and Chinese art.

-A conversation between Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Paulina Olowska and Adrian Searle about Luc Tuymans and his solo exhibition at Tate Modern.

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