Marlene Dumas. open-end
The exhibition
Dumas forty years later
A dazzling monographic journey, Open-end ranges from early Polaroid family portraits from 1984 to a small Super 8 film of her sleeping daughter - Lolita-style - from 2022. "Many people believe that depicting sex is the surest way to get attention, but that's not entirely true," she argues. "Not knowing how to respond to the crisis of representation, avant-garde painters have deliberately ignored these subjects and abandoned them to photographers" - like Nan Goldin. Yet painting can never totally renounce eroticism. Painting is the trace of human touch," continues the artist. It is the skin of a surface.
Excerpt from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in the issue 102 of the magazine Art Absolument, published on July 12, 2022.
A dazzling monographic journey, Open-end ranges from early Polaroid family portraits from 1984 to a small Super 8 film of her sleeping daughter - Lolita-style - from 2022. "Many people believe that depicting sex is the surest way to get attention, but that's not entirely true," she argues. "Not knowing how to respond to the crisis of representation, avant-garde painters have deliberately ignored these subjects and abandoned them to photographers" - like Nan Goldin. Yet painting can never totally renounce eroticism. Painting is the trace of human touch," continues the artist. It is the skin of a surface.
Excerpt from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in the issue 102 of the magazine Art Absolument, published on July 12, 2022.
When
27/03/2022 - 08/01/2023
