Unable to make it on thursday, I wandered into the MCA early halloween morning to view the Luc Tuymans. The exhibition works span a number of years and subjects though the dull color scheme never faded further than recent memory. I found myself drawn to two paintings in the whole exhibition, the Demolition 2005 and The Parc 2005.
The first thing that drew me to these paintings was the particularly beautiful color, layout and technique used to create them. As was mentioned in class, Tuymans uses news pictures as reference, however the paintings really take on their own identity through the way the thin layers of paint become a haunting image. I might describe the colors he uses in both works as almost ghosts (I guess its the spirit of the season) of a former photograph.
Over all, the most enjoyable thing about the exhibition was the way that individual paintings were only snapshots of a greater story. In order to understand the entire meaning behind each work you had to contemplate all of the works in the room. An emotionally drained newsreel faded even further by the time they were buried.
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