Tanguy de Thuret is a painter and visual artist working between Brussels, Rome and Paris.
His work bridges German New Objectivity, Symbolism, and cinema, exploring how images shape our perception of reality in a technological age.
Influenced by Kenneth Anger, William Blake, Gerhard Richter, and Baroque light, his paintings oscillate between precision and dream, documentary and fiction.
Active also as a radio commentator and video essayist, he creates dialogues between art history, film, and contemporary society.
He is a licensed guide in Brussels, Rome and Paris, and regularly collaborates with cultural institutions for exhibitions, talks, and film analysis.
My work explores the fragile boundary between reality and its representation —
a dialogue between painting, cinema, and the contemporary image.
Suspended time, optical clarity, and the tension between presence and illusion
form the core of my practice.
PAINTINGS
I create images that question our relationship to reality — paintings, films, visual essays.
Blending German New Objectivity, Symbolism, and contemporary cinema,
my work explores light, memory, and human presence in an accelerated world.
VIDEOS
My video work extends my painting practice: sculpting time, light and perception.
Influenced by Kenneth Anger, Eisenstein, Derek Jarman, Tarkovsky and Peter Greenaway, I explore the fracture
between analogue memory and digital acceleration.
Magick Lantern
Experimental videos done between 2011-2016. Between Europe & US. Between New-York City & Rome. T.S.Eliot meeting Harmony Korine Springbreakers.
My painting practice draws on German New Objectivity, Symbolism, and cinematic light.
I am interested in the way images — photographic, digital, or mental — shape our perception of reality.
Each series is an attempt to suspend time, interrogate the gaze, or confront the spectacle of the present.
Queen’s Park (2020, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm)
Painted in London just after the first Covid-19 lockdown, this canvas depicts a tarpaulin-covered car, immobilized in an urban park. It evokes the sudden slowdown of the world, the absence of movement, and silence. The tarp transforms the object into an involuntary sculpture, reminiscent of Christo’s work, and gives rise to a poetics of stillness and suspended time.