DUMAS MARLENE

(H/B) OMEGA'S EYES
Marlene Dumas juxtaposes her own works with works by Edvard Munch, assembling what she describes as 'a love story about tenderness, passion and agony.' Dumas's personal experience of Munch's art is the starting point for this book. During her youth, she was fascinated by the anxiety in his subject matter, but in the beginning of her own artistic career, there was a period of time in which she didn't regard him as quite as relevant as he'd once been. According to Dumas, she 'wasn't drawn to a man who was celebrated for having represented al...
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(H/B) AGAINST THE WALL
Described by Deborah Solomon in a 2008 New York Times profile as "one of contemporary art's most compelling painters," Marlene Dumas has continuously explored the complex range of human emotions, often probing questions of gender, race, sexuality, and economic inequality through her dramatic and at times haunting figural compositions. Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas's first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue - which sold out shortly after publi...
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