D.D.R.

細節

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958)
D.D.R.
signed, titled and dated 'L. Tuymans '90 I D.D.R.' (on the reverse of the left panel); signed, titled and dated 'Luc Tuymans '91 II D.D.R.' (on the reverse of the right panel)
oil on canvas
diptych, each: 16½ x 13in. (42 x 33cm.); overall: 16½ x 26in. (42 x 66cm.)
Painted in 1990-91

來源

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in the 1990s.

出版

Luc Tuymans, exh. cat., Art Gallery of York University, Toronto 1994 (illustrated, p. 91).
U. Loock, J.V. Aliaga, N. Spector, H.R. Reust, Luc Tuymans, Hong Kong 1996 (illustrated in colour, p. 136).

展覽

Bern, Kunsthalle, Luc Tuymans, March-April 1992 (illustrated, p. 28).
Kassel, Documenta IX, June-September 1992.
Hong Kong, Arts Center, Art in Belgium, June-July 1993.
Philadelphia, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Luc Tuymans Paintings, 1978-1993, September-October 1995.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

"DDR, a two-part work based on stamps from the DDR, shows an athelete who was a resistance fighter under the Nazis. He did not survive the war. First you see the portrait that is transformed into a universal portrait: the man appears as an emblematic figure, mythologized by a halo, genderless. Next to the portrait is the depiction of the sport the man had played - he was an Olympic diver. The painting is brutal and poignant at the same time. The faceless, Everyman hero, who excelled at sport and stood up for the oppressed is here presented as a shadow of his former self, his face mummified in the crude brushtrokes. The resonance is clear: the power of the individual to challenge the State can only bring a sorry end. What should be a celebratory portrait, an opportunity to boast of his brilliance as an Olympic-standard diver, is in reality a subtle and painterly rendition of the dispensability of a hero. ...As the DDR no longer exists, the picture also has the meaning of a circle that is now closed. It is the picture of a completion for which it had never been destined" (Luc Tuymans quoted in 'Artist Writings', in U. Loock, et al (eds.), Luc Tuymans, London and New York, 2003, p. 136-37).