Luc Tuymans

Courtesy of Luc Tuymans and David Zwirner, New York/London.

Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, Luc Tuymans: The Spill, 2013, p. 28, illustrated

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is cooler with the reproduction failing to convey the blue undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra-violet light.
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“I am happy to support this cause because education is everything.” Luc Tuymans, 2015

Model is one of five paintings from a series entitled The Spill, made in 2012.
These works are the result of an ongoing collaboration with Kerry James
Marshall that focuses on making an animation. Model is based on a Polaroid the artist took of an architectural model in his studio. It shows a notorious housing project in Chicago once visible from Marshall’s studio, but now demolished. Here, Tuymans’s engagement with architecture is apparent—buildings feature widely throughout his practice—and the bird eye perspective also adds a cinematic or theatrical component, as if the model is a stage waiting for a narrative to unfold