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LUC TUYMANS
1958
Born Mortsel, Belgium
1976
Began to study Fine Arts
Lives and works in Antwerp
Exposing the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created. The reality of Luc Tuymans's work is almost 'twee', pleasing images of a lampshade or leopard-skin rug pass quite comfortably as aesthetic totems; it's only their cognitive association with the Holocaust, or atr (showing 500 of 6606 characters). |
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