Spring Exhibitions: April 2–July 26, 2009
Catch Air: Robin Rhode
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Beyond the Blue
William Forsythe: Transfigurations
Fall 2009: September 17, 2009–January 3, 2010
Luc Tuymans
The Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are co-organizing the first major retrospective in the U.S. of the work of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, one of the most highly regarded artists of his generation. Tuymans represented his country at the 2001 Venice Biennale, participated in Documenta XI, and was recently featured in a major exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Pushing his muted palette through a shadowy scrim, Tuymans creates images that can be both deliberately enigmatic and disarmingly stark. His work takes on the dance between photography and painting, and between memory and reality, all while evoking a powerful sense of history through such themes as colonialism in the Belgian Congo, the Holocaust, and Christ's Passion. Co-curators are Helen Molesworth and Madeleine Grynsztejn. The show opens at the Wexner Center, with a tour that also includes SFMOMA, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue.
