Some book reviews
Art in Print, Kate McCrickard:
“ (…) his sensibility is a natural fit for the smooth surfaces of screenprint and lithography, but he has also ventured into inkjet, photocopies, aquatint etching, thermo-enamelling and installation, amassing an absorbing body of print work that sharpens his inquiries into trauma, historical amnesia and the veracity of the image.”
Aesthetica Magazine:
“It becomes evidently clear, that through the very nature of Tuymans’ process of appropriating from photographic imagery, abstracting it and then re-working it through mind and hand, he draws upon a lack of sincerity and belief in photographic imagery today. Painting works with time and through time, it stalls a moment and can be left lingering within the artist’s for a prolonged period of time before it is finally realised. In this, a painting entertains a core, habitual truth, one that an iPhone or imagery from a computer screen can never possibly convey.”
Art in Print, Kate McCrickard:
“ (…) his sensibility is a natural fit for the smooth surfaces of screenprint and lithography, but he has also ventured into inkjet, photocopies, aquatint etching, thermo-enamelling and installation, amassing an absorbing body of print work that sharpens his inquiries into trauma, historical amnesia and the veracity of the image.”
Aesthetica Magazine:
“It becomes evidently clear, that through the very nature of Tuymans’ process of appropriating from photographic imagery, abstracting it and then re-working it through mind and hand, he draws upon a lack of sincerity and belief in photographic imagery today. Painting works with time and through time, it stalls a moment and can be left lingering within the artist’s for a prolonged period of time before it is finally realised. In this, a painting entertains a core, habitual truth, one that an iPhone or imagery from a computer screen can never possibly convey.”
