Kunstcriticus Adrian Searle van de Guardian - die het werk van Tuymans al decennialang bekijkt, beschrijft en 'onder zijn huid' heeft - bezocht de vandaag geopende tentoonstelling in Tate Modern:

"Indifference is everywhere in Tuymans's art. It is one of the words that crops up repeatedly in connection with his work, along with anxiety, dislocation, disembodiment, horror, boredom, violence, repulsion, entrapment and repression. This indifference points to the paradox in his art: the most volatile and unmanageable subjects are treated with a cold eye, which looks not to the central horror of an event, but somewhat to the side, to some apparently insignificant or innocuous detail."

> Living dead - Adrian Searle in Guardian Unlimited over Luc Tuymans in Tate Modern.