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"Luc Tuymans: The Purge - Paintings 1991-1998".


KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG

No blood or depicted brutality shows up in Luc Tuymans's figurative fig·u·ra·tive  
adj.
1.
a. Based on or making use of figures of speech; metaphorical: figurative language.

b. Containing many figures of speech; ornate.

2.
 paintings; the violence is abstract but no less effective. Often, the cold radiance - black-and-white TV?seems to delete parts of the imagery, and titles like Intolerance intolerance /in·tol·er·ance/ (in-tol´er-ans) inability to withstand or consume; inability to absorb or metabolize nutrients.

congenital lysine intolerance
 and Gas Chamber hammer home the eeriness ee·rie or ee·ry  
adj. ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est
1.
a. Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.

b. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. See Synonyms at weird.
. The importance of cinematic editing has often been pointed out by the Belgian artist himself, and this fifty-painting retrospective (co-organized by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht) will also include stills from the 8 mm films produced by Tuymans in the early '80s. The five-essay, multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual  
adj.
1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary.

2.
 catalogue is designed to look like a daily paper. Oct. 23, 1999-Jan. 30, 2000.
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Publication:Artforum International
Geographic Code:4EUGE
Date:Sep 1, 1999
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