Luc Tuymans (b. 1958)

'I started out as a virtuoso painter with a great deal of gesturality and color. That came to a crisis because it became a flaccid way of working—I found out that when one tries to cultivate a style, one misses the point and the necessities. So I tried to go to the other side, to be deliberately clumsy to research what kind of immediacy there is to that' L. Tuymans.