Marlene Dumas

Female

“If you can’t see it, paint it,” writes South African painter Marlene Dumas. This impeccably produced and first time monograph follows her career from the early works of the 1970s into 2000. Featured are Dumas’ noted “Females” series from 1992-1993, 211 drawings in Indian ink or charcoal on paper, selected paintings and very early pieces going back to sketchbooks from her teenage years. Sly, erotic, nuanced, impassive, ecstatic: these works reveal an artist who is fascinated by gender roles and cultural taboos; the way the body, with all its orifices and functions, is integrated into and represented in the public cultural domain; and exploring the nature of abstraction. This publication makes a case for Dumas being considered one of the most unique and intriguing female artists working today. Essays by exhibition curator, Matthias Winzen, Oliver Kornhoff, and Maija Tanninen-Mattila.

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