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Sight-Free Seeing

Sight-Free Seeing

by Bruno Fazzolari

There’s this idea that the more detailed you are, the more realistic you are. In a photograph, there’s this immediate illusion that you're seeing all this realistic detail, but it's just a representation, through one-point perspective and the like. Tuymans’ solution is to create this light, which gives you a sense of reality—or unreality in some cases.
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Luc Tuymans Retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 10 A.M. February 3, 2010

Luc Tuymans Retrospective. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 10 A.M. February 3, 2010

by Jake Longstreth

With a grin, Tuymans beckoned us into the first of the large, spacious rooms: "Now we move into the light!" It is unclear whether he was referring to the room with its bright, high ceilings, or to the paintings themselves. Nonetheless, many of the works in the large galleries do possess a glowing, internal luminosity that his earlier works don’t.
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