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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave»rank: 99925by: Cornelia Butler, Richard Shiff, Matthew Monahan, Marlene Dumas
: :In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based on photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled from printed pornography, to her large-scale images highlighting charged relationships within groups, Dumas' work explores the contradictions behind the physical reality of the body, merging acute social commentary with personal experience and art-historical antecedent to create unsettling and ambiguous psychological statements.Accompanying Dumas' first ... |
Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations»rank: 131034by: Marlene Dumas
: :One of the top-selling female artists in the world, Marlene Dumas is a young painter whose works deal with the cycle of life as well as issues of gender, sexuality, pleasure, and pain. This is an intimate look at her life—and the intellectual, ethical, and moral questions that stimulate and absorb her—as well as a comprehensive catalog of her drawings and paintings. Essays by prominent South African artists and her curator shed light on Dumas as a person as well as her creative work and its perception in the art world. |
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Marlene Dumas: Selected Works»rank: 670094by: Marlene Dumas
: :A blue-black topless woman stakes her claim on the Upper East Side. A stripper displays her behind next to six brides posing in a row. A dead man with a bound jaw asks the viewer to confront three blindfolded prisoners and three mysteriously somber children. The paintings and drawings collected here demonstrate Marlene Dumas's enduring fascination with image-making as a force for objectification, and simultaneously express her desire to pry the act of figurative painting loose from that history. Her lushly painted work recalls the immediacy of Expressionism in its gestures, the critical distance of Conceptual art in its idea-driven intensity, and the pleasures of eroticism in both its subjects and its ... |
Citizens and Subjects»rank: 1096141by: Marlene Dumas, Aernout Mik, Lawrence Weiner
: :In 2007, Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Mik's acclaimed three-part video installation, curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader. Interspersed with provocative black-and-white images from Mik's artworks, Citizens and Subjects looks at the Netherlands as an example of the contemporary western condition at a time when the demands of 'national security,' the normalization of violence and the maintenance of high levels of fear and anxiety have become part of daily life in the so-called 'West.' This volume seeks to identify the causes of our current predicament and looks at how our society fails to negotiate the challenges ... |
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Marlene Dumas: Wet Dreams»rank: 963499by: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Marlene Dumas
: :The oeuvre of Marlene Dumas is primarily characterized by her watercolors. Suggestive works, they appear to be based mostly on photographs from magazines which Dumas blurs, crops, or distorts. In doing so, the artist explores the sexualized dynamics between the picture, the painter, and the viewer. Her always openly sensual representations of human bodies and faces deal with some of the questions central to life. Wet Dreams features a broad selection of Dumas' loaded and expressive watercolors, expanding on the primary topics found throughout her work: the clicha picture of the female, the relations between the sexes, role playing, sexuality and pornography, guilt and violence, birth and death. Specially featured here are ... |
(In Search of) the Perfect Lover: Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon»rank: 1217493by: Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Michaela Unterdörfer
: :Notwithstanding their considerable differences and individuality--one would hardly expect them to have a lover in common--Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon share an artistic intent to explore eroticism and sexuality. Each artist deals, in his or her own stylistic way, with the intense physical states of ecstasy, passion, conflict and fear. Working through the medium of drawing--the 'medium of the mind'--they trace themselves, scribing pictorial metaphors of an alternately tender, aggressive, attached, forceful and even erotic confrontation with the material. Creativity, itself never free from conflict, undresses itself in drawings that touch on obsession, desire and the pleasures of eroticism. (In Search of) The Perfect Lover groups together extensive ... |
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Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnof»rank: 1448801by: Eugen Blume, Peter Fischli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray
: :This is, quite possibly, one of the world's best designed art books. Featured within its pages are works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection--one of the world's most significant (and yes, controversial) collections of contemporary art. But this book doesn't merely present some 400 works by 40 artists, it also seeks, through its design, to provide an individual stage--or section--for each artist in order to highlight the artist's philosophy, or to play off of his or her signature works of art. For example, Raymond Pettibon's comic-like drawings unfold to a newspaper-sized spread, while Gordon Matta-Clark's opening page has a split in it that corresponds perfectly to the cut-out in the house of ... |
Don'T Touch The White Woman»rank: 1728745by: Marlene Dumas, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat
: :Published on the occasion of the group exhibition Don't Touch the White Woman gathers today's prominent female artists and shows the extremely complex panoramas of their lives. Artists include Maja Bajevic, Marlene Dumas, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Daniela Kostove, Shirin Neshat, Shen Yuan, among others. The book features works specially conceived for the catalogue--drawings, large installations, photographs, videos, paintings--all explore the theme of female artist freedom in contemporary art. According to Francesco Bonami, curator and essayist, 'While the work of the artists in the show purposely lack a shared content, subject matter, or ideas, they participate in a polyphony of predictable outcries.' |
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Evn Sammlung: 95-05»rank: 3688895by: Brigitte Huck, Georg Kargl, Paul Katzberger, Wolfgang Kos, Heike Maier, Peter Trummer, Edelbert Kob, Pawel Althamer, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas
: :Ten years ago, EVN Sammlung, an Austrian power company, set itself the task of collecting the most intensely contemporary art it could lay hands on, without concern for how the work would mature. Its first decade's booty, documented in this substantial catalogue, includes Liam Gillick, Fischli & Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Sol LeWitt, Anri Sala, Maurzio Cattelan, Thomas Demand and Sam Taylor-Wood. |
Female»rank: 1684880by: Marlene Dumas
: :Ten years ago, EVN Sammlung, an Austrian power company, set itself the task of collecting the most intensely contemporary art it could lay hands on, without concern for how the work would mature. Its first decade's booty, documented in this substantial catalogue, includes Liam Gillick, Fischli & Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Sol LeWitt, Anri Sala, Maurzio Cattelan, Thomas Demand and Sam Taylor-Wood. |