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From: Rachel Adams
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 13 July 2004
Tiring trying to work out how to pronounce Tuymans, tiemans or toymans or what. Anyway his paintings are the sort of thing any art student can be taught to like: few colours, evocative misty images referencing photography, scrubby and a bit cack handed, dealing with history meaning blah blah. Don't waste paint, less is more, stop with all the colours, look at toymans he knows how to pack a punch with an image's ghost. They would look good in people houses, handily, as well.
This is a drab show to go with that other overrated miserablist Hopper. Still they make a good point. He and tiemans are responsible for funneling painting in the wrong direction, towards a reduction of its abundant power and joy (instanced by Matisse e Picasso)and an increase in its reliance on the cropped language of photography. Away from freedom, to the dead-end of the painted image.
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