“Luc Tuymans’s main contribution to contemporary art in the last twenty years has been his rethinking of the symbolic and narrative possibilities of figurative painting and the imagery in which it is grounded....Tuymans’s approach shows one possible avenue for making new kinds of meaning out of a technical vocabulary that many artists may have considered orthodox or even powerless. We see this trend toward overdetermined narratives in the work of many Chinese artists of his generation....And we see it mirrored in a younger generation of artists...for whom this kind of conceptual approach has opened up new possibilities off of the canvas.”

—Philip Tinari, Director and CEO, UCCA