Skip to main content
Today's Hours
show today's hours
close today's hours
Galleries
open hours
close hours
Sunday: 10AM–5PM
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10AM–6PM
Wednesday: 10AM–6PM
Thursday: 10AM–8PM
Friday: 10AM–8PM
Saturday: 10AM–8PM
Visitor Desk
open hours
close hours
Sunday: 10AM–5PM
Monday: 9AM–6PM
Tuesday: 9AM–6PM
Wednesday: 9AM–6PM
Thursday: 9AM–8PM
Friday: 10AM–8PM
Saturday: 8AM–8PM
Café
open hours
close hours
Sunday: Closed
Monday: 8:30AM–3PM
Tuesday: 8:30AM–3PM
Wednesday: 8:30AM–3PM
Thursday: 8:30AM–3PM
Friday: 8:30AM–3PM
Saturday: 8:30AM–12PM
Store
open hours
close hours
Sunday: 10AM–5PM
Monday: 10AM–6PM
Tuesday: 10AM–6PM
Wednesday: 10AM–6PM
Thursday: 10AM–8PM
Friday: 10AM–8PM
Saturday: 8AM–8PM
Give
Login
Cart
Store
Café
Wex location on Google maps
Wexner Center for the Arts
Calendar
Art & Events
Art & Events
Exhibitions
Film/Video
Performing Arts
Education
Talks & More
Special Events
Programming Series
Artist Projects
Artist Projects
Artist Residency Awards
Film/Video Studio Residencies
About
About
Mission
History & Architecture
Staff & Trustees
Annual Reports
Wexner Prize
Impact
Contact Us
Join & Give
Join & Give
Join
Give
Legacy Giving
Leadership Councils
Read, Watch, Listen
Your Visit
What are you looking for?
Search the Wex
Search
Close Search
Search
Directions and Contact
Menu
Close Menu
View Calendar
Art & Events
main menu
Main Menu
Exhibitions
Film/Video
Performing Arts
Education
Talks & More
Special Events
Programming Series
Artist Projects
main menu
Main Menu
Artist Residency Awards
Film/Video Studio Residencies
About
main menu
Main Menu
Mission
History & Architecture
Staff & Trustees
Annual Reports
Wexner Prize
Impact
Contact Us
Join & Give
main menu
Main Menu
Join
Give
Legacy Giving
Leadership Councils
Read, Watch, Listen
Your Visit
Search
Get Directions
Give
Login
Cart
Store
Café
Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 North High Street
Columbus Ohio 43210
Get Directions
Have any questions?
(614) 292-3535
Contact Us
Blog
The post-Wex lives of Luc Tuymans and Mark Bradford
May 02, 2011
Facebook
Twitter
Email Page
We thought we'd check in on two major exhibitions organized or co-organized by the Wexner Center that have been traveling the country and overseas.
The massive
Luc Tuymans retrospective
organized by the Wexner Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been on display in Tuymans's home country of Belgium, at BOZAR, since February. This is the last stop on a tour that kicked off at the Wex in the fall of 2009 (the
New Yorker
's Peter Schjeldahl gave it “
a thumbs-up
â€) and continued on to San Francisco, Dallas, and Chicago before heading to Europe.
The
Brussels installation
of the show (on view through this Sunday) marks the painter's first solo museum exhibition in his home country, garnering him press in various
Belgian newspapers
. The review in
Le Soir
noted that his “use of cool colors … goes well beyond an aesthetic choice to lead us into a world where nothing is quite what one thinks, where things disintegrate gradually and where the viewer is invited to dig into the uncertainties of his own memory.â€
La Libre
wrote, “Luc Tuymans's art, it is readily acknowledged, bears the mark of a great artist..….[He] looks to history for a challenge and announces at the same time the end of the illusion of history.†And the
Financial Times
(UK) called the retrospective “impressiveâ€: “When [Tuymans's] quiet, subversive pictures appeared at the end of the 1980s, they challenged the era's neo-expressionist art scene so successfully that Tuymans was hailed as the saviour of late 20th-century painting. Conceptual but painterly, engaging with the big themes of history and of today, he has not put a foot wrong since.†A
review in the same paper
of the
Venetian and Flemish Masters
exhibition downstairs from the gallery where
Luc Tuymans
is on display noted that the Tuymans retrospective added “piquancy and provocation†to the masters exhibition.
Meanwhile, the Wexner Center's
Mark Bradford
exhibition, which has already been to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (where it closed in mid-March), is heading to the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
May 28–September 18, 2011, followed by stops at the Dallas Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In a December review of the Boston installation, Holland Cotter of
The New York Times
wrote, “Mr. Bradford has opted to tackle the full spectrum of subjects, which is what makes his abstraction feel deep. And he does so to stay on the move, trying this, trying that, hands on, hands off, which keeps his art light and fleet.â€
Tag(s)
Exhibitions
In the Media
Behind the Exhibition
Wex on the road