Luc Tuymans explores how images reveal and conceal meaning in a digital world. His new exhibition at David Zwirner‘s Los Angeles gallery centers on the monumental The Fruit Basket (2025), a 16-by-23-foot fragmented grid painting based on an iPhone photo of fermenting fruit projected on a screen. The show includes Illumination (2024–2025), four large-scale works resembling Rothko’s abstractions but sourced from smartphone stills of illuminated manuscript restorations, framed in thick near-black borders to heighten artificial light. Other works probe intrusion and illusion: Hollow (2025) depicts an empty prosthetic mask; The Maggot (2025) symbolizes decay and healing; Migrants (2025) renders a real news image of shadowed figures in urgent reds. Intimate portraits from 3D-printed American figures, like Hall of Fame and The Family, appear lifelike yet ghostly. The exhibition runs until April 4, 2026.

Luc Tuymans: The Fruit Basket / David Zwirner Los Angeles. Vernissage, February 24, 2026.