Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner Gallery

Luc Tuymans, Jacket, oil on canvas, 2011.
Luc Tuymans, Jacket, oil on canvas, 2011.

From Belgium’s colonial past to The Disney Company’s practices, Luc Tuymans’s past paintings have obliquely referenced the exercise of power and control.  By contrast, his latest body of work presents fragments from his own life, including this ominous image of a zoo building and a jacket, which looks like a modernist abstraction plus or minus a body.  (At David Zwirner Gallery, 519 West 19th Street through Feb 9th).

Luc Tuymans, Zoo, oil on canvas, 2011.
Luc Tuymans, Zoo, oil on canvas, 2011.