In Venice the exhibition-event of Luc Tuymans, at Palazzo Grassi

Luc Tuymans (Mortsel, 1958), one of the most important contemporary artists on the international scene, is coming to Italy for the first time with a solo exhibition. After stepping into the curator’s shoes for this winter’s Sanguine exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, where Tuymans selected Baroque masterpieces and contemporary works for an unusual comparison, the Belgian artist returns to our country, but this time as a painter, to show more than eighty of his works in an exhibition-event in Venice, at Palazzo Grassi, from March 24, 2010 to January 6, 2020.

The title La Pelle (The Skin) has been chosen for the exhibition, in reference to Curzio Malaparte ’s 1949 book of the same name: a book as ambiguous as Tuymans’ work is intended to be(a lengthy discussion of his art can be read at this link). Curated by Caroline Bourgeois in collaboration with Tuymans himself, the exhibition profiles the artist from 1986 to the present with works from the Pinault Collection but also from major international museums and private collections. Tuymans approached painting precisely in the 1980s, and since then he has never stopped painting and producing his works in front of which there are mixed feelings, between pleasure and disquiet.

The exhibition project also includes a site-specific work made especially for the rooms of Palazzo Grassi, and features several of his best-known works. The exhibition opens daily except Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., last admission at 6 p.m. For more information you can visit the Palazzo Grassi website.

Pictured: Luc Tuymans, Twenty Seventeen (2017; oil on canvas; Pinault Collection). Ph. Credit Studio Luc Tuymans, Antwerp

In Venice the exhibition-event of Luc Tuymans, at Palazzo Grassi

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