Friday 2 July 2004
18.30 - 19.30
On Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans Bloodstains  1993 © the artist, courtesy Jos Van Den Bergh, Antwerp

Emma Dexter, Senior Curator at Tate Modern, leads a tour of the Luc Tuymans exhibition, revealing his distinctive contribution to the medium of painting.

Emphasising the tension between tradition and innovation in Tuymans’ work, she will focus on the way he uses bleached out and faded colours to suggest the condition and quality of memory. Tuymans often deals with difficult subject matter, from Christ’s Passion to the Holocaust or the colonial experience of the 1950s Belgian Congo. Such works will be considered alongside ones which hint at the terrors lurking in the everyday.

See also: Luc Tuymans exhibition at Tate Modern

Tate Modern, Level 4 West

Free with exhibition ticket, no booking necessary