Peaches and Technicolor

Luc Tuymans

To coincide with the major exhibition Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya – A Shock to the Senses (Dresden, Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meister), Luc Tuymans has applied two major wall paintings of Peaches and of Technicolor to the walls of the staircase of the Schauspielhaus, Postplatz, Dresden. These two works were part of the exhibition which opened on March 16th, 2013.
Peaches and Technicolor originated as paintings which Tuymans first showed in London at the Zwirner Gallery in autumn 2012, together with the ALLO! series. The pictures were inspired by two images from an advertising film from 1913, whose lack of sharpness and weak color saturation particularly interested him as a painter.

Edition Sold

Suite of two screenprints on BFK Rives 250 g in a blue linen portfolio
Size sheet: 76 × 56 cm
Size image Peaches: 60 × 40.5 cm
Size image Technicolor: 60 × 45.1 cm
Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp, under the supervision of Roger Vandaele
Edition of 75 + 15 in Roman numerals + 15 AP + 5 PP
The copies numbered 1/75 to 75/75 are reserved exclusively for the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in Dresden e.V. and Förderverein Staatsschauspiel Dresden. The copies numbered I/XV to XV/XV are the trade edition.
Signed and numbered 1-75 and I-XV
Published in 2013

Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is considered one of today’s most influential painters, assuring painting’s enduring legacy by invigorating the medium for a modern context. Born in 1958 in Antwerp, where he lives and works, Tuymans is steeped in the great tradition of Northern European history painting, as well as a modern culture informed by photography, television, and cinema. This is evident in his canvases, where traditional painting collides with contemporary visual strategies, resulting in compositions that adopt technological methods, such as cropping, sequencing, or the close-up, to introduce new perspectives on painting and culture. His seemingly innocuous pictures are often grounded in previously existing imagery drawn from photographs, found images, film stills, and other contemporary visual artifacts.