Luc Tuymans' first U.S. retrospective opens today at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring over 80 works. The European art world had already taken considerable note of the Antwerp based Tuymans (b.1958) before he had his first show in New York at David Zwirner in 1996.
Since then, what the Wexner calls "his stark, often muted canvases" exploring "issues of history and memory" have become immensely influential, not to say popular among museums and collectors. David Coggins recently sat down in aback room at Zwirner and discussed -- as he smoked Marlboro Reds continuously -- the relevance of context, the dangers of political art and the importance of making silent paintings.
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