The Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are co-organizing the first major retrospective in the U.S. of the work of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, one of the most highly regarded artists of his generation. Tuymans represented his country at the 2001 Venice Biennale, participated in Documenta XI, and was recently featured in a major exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Using a muted palette to create images that can be enigmatic and disarmingly stark, Tuymans explores issues of history and memory, photography and painting. At the same time, his works evoke a powerful sense of history, investigating such themes as colonialism in the Belgian Congo, the Holocaust, and Christ’s Passion. Co-curators: Helen Molesworth and Madeleine Grynsztejn. The show opens at the Wexner Center and will then tour to SFMOMA and the Dallas Museum of Art. The catalogue features essays by Molesworth, Grynsztein, and Bill Horrigan.