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.
As is the case with the most of Tuymans his work, does not attract the picture itself our attention, but the possibility of reconstruction of a moment or a fact. This watercolor treated the theme of "The Wiedergutmachung", a German system with which the German government after World War II irrationally money to Holocaust survivors and others who were direct victims of the Nazis. The word literally translated means 'to make it good again'.
