Luc Tuymans | "Silence" 1990-2000 | (for Parkett 60) | Hand-stitched version
Read a Parkett text on Luc Tuymans
Parkett Vol. 60
Quote from Parkett
“Painting, like any memory, always comes too late and too soon. It mediates between the uncatchable moment of the past and a thought that springs from it. Luc Tuymans’s pictures show this mediating relationship by including elements of the medial source after which they were painted: the fleetingness and the light of photographic paper, film or video stills.”
Hans Rudolf Reust, Parkett No. 60, 2000
Additional Quote
“Luc Tuymans is a painter who uses photographs of emotionally or politically charged subjects … and transforms them into gray-toned, blurry, almost sinister copies of the original. By taking subjects that carry strong emotional associations, Tuymans is able to create facsimile copies of heavily loaded subjects such as “Silence”, his custom made shirt with a silkscreen image taken from an earlier painting, and transform them into otherworldly, ghostly remnants of their former selves.” -Artspace
"Silence", 1990-2000 (for Parkett 60)
Men’s cotton shirt with reproduction of the artist’s painting SILENCE, 1991,
shirt design by Walter van Beirendonck, 3 sizes (S, M, L)
This is the special, hand-stitched version of Luc Tuyman’s shirt project “Silence” for Parkett 60.
Hand-stiched version made by Trois-Quarte, Antwerp,
Ed. 20/XXV, signed and numbered certificate
Artist Document
With this letter Luc Tuymans sent Parkett the Ektachrome of the painting “Silence” for the silkscreen print version of his shirt. The hand-stitched version was made in Antwerp, the shirt was designed by Walter van Beirendonk
Artist Contribution for Parkett 100/101
“… thank you for the splendid work you have all done over the years in reassuring some critical and necessary mass to the art world… I hope your endeavor will continue by other means.”
