Sanguine / Bloedrood

During the cultural city festival Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens Inspires, the M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, juxtaposes the spirit of the baroque masters with the vision of contemporary top artists. With the exhibition Sanguine/Bloedrood (Blood Red), curator Luc Tuymans aims to overwhelm the visitor by placing key works from the baroque of, among others, Francisco de Zurbarán and Caravaggio, in dialogue with works by classical contemporary masters, such as On Kawara and Edward Kienholz, as well as new works by contemporary stars such as Zhang Enli, Takashi Murakami, Michaël Borremans, Sigmar Polke and Tobias Rheberger.

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Luc Tuymans

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(c)image: M HKA

Feu d'artifice [Fireworks], 1982

Luc Tuymans

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Videotape U-matic, KCA 30

Feu d'artifice is a recording of a performance by Luc Tuymans which took place in 7 July 1982 in the Koninklijke Gaanderijen (Royal Galleries), a collonade nearly 400 meters in length in Ostend, Belgium. Feu d'artifice is a key work within Tuymans' oeuvre. It is his first video-experiment, created during a period in the 80s in which he temporarily gave up on painting. The encounter with film techniques has been influential on his later canvases. For instance, paintings like La Correspondance and Antichambre are rooted in his interest in film.

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