LUC TUYMANS.(artist, exhibition "Mwana Kitoko")(Brief Article)

DAVID ZWIRNER

Belgium was hardly one of the more ambitious forces of nineteenth-century Western colonialism. Compared with the British, Spanish, Dutch, and French, Belgians entered the land-grab race rather late: King Leopold II didn't think to seize the Congo until the late 1870s. All the same, the country's colonial rule was notorious: The scope of Leopold's empire may have been modest, but his policies and those of his successors were among the most repressive in Africa.

Luc Tuiymans's recent show of paintings, "Mwana Kitoko," focused not on the origins of his ...

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