Hotelkamer [Hotel Room], 1986
Artist Novel, 50 x 60 cm.
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Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK005778).
In Hotel Room the viewer is treated to a room’s fleeting interior. We see a night-lamp, a part of the bed, an open window and a curtain in shades of beige, light brown and grey. This strong simplification is recurrent in all of Tuymans’ works. The acrylic paint is applied in large smears. The finishing remains minimal, so the impression is rather that of a cursory sketch. The work bears witness to a desolate atmosphere, underlined by the dampened, bleached-out colours. The choice of colour is deliberate, and for Tuymans relates to both collective and individual memory, something that runs as a common theme through his oeuvre: “My colour-palette comes from the understanding that a colour-tone is more powerful than a color. Rendering colour, mixing it with a lot of white, amplifies the colour’s intensity. If you want to make work that stays in the mind by grace of its intensity, then for me you have to approach colour in an indirect way.”
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Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: LATT: Dialogue #2 Luc Tuymans & Vanessa van Obberghen. M HKA, Antwerpen, 04 April 2014 - 15 June 2014.
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The collection XXI – Winter 2007. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 01 December 2007 - 10 March 2008.
> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Audiodescriptie - De Collectie.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Luc Tuymans.