Luc Tuymans

The Swamp 2017

Gert Robijns and Luc Tuymans first met while attending Sint-Lucas Brussels, where Tuymans was first introduced to Robijns’s work. An intense and substantive conversation ensued immediately. After graduating, Tuymans invited him to present his work in an international context. That invitation became a major catalyst and offered Robijns the opportunity to position his practice internationally immediately after his studies. Years later, it was Robijns who, through re set Home, invited his colleague Luc Tuymans to bring the work back to life. The project was conceived as a temporary and fragile gesture. At the end of the process, Tuymans and Robijns jointly decided to burn the work. This decision caused quite a stir in the community and raised fundamental questions: why would a masterpiece by Luc Tuymans be destroyed?