Luc Tuymans: Flemish Village, 1995
Oil on canvas, 111 x 145 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

At first sight the painted image seems to merely represent a typical Flemish village. When you look closer, you see that windows and doors are missing. Upon closer inspection, however, the feeling of estrangement grows even further. The colours are grey and the image is rather faint, like a memory vaguely stirred. As if the banal past is popping up again in thought.