Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, on view at MoMA

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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
December 14, 2008-February 16, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

This exhibition of the work of the acclaimed painter Marlene Dumas, the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States, is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition includes approximately seventy paintings and thirty-five drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today. The exhibition opens with Dumas's earliest mature works from the late 1970s. While loosely chronological, it will also reflect Dumas's tendency to work in series, with key paintings grouped together. Through her focus on the human figure, Dumas merges themes of race, sexuality, and social identity with personal experience and art-historical antecedents to create a unique perspective on important and controversial issues of the day. The exhibition provides an opportunity to trace these themes over the course of the artist's career, and also provides access to paintings and drawings of extraordinary technical quality. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Images courtesy of the artist.

© 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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[allaboutdmagic]

She's the greatest depicter of the human form since Egon Schiele. Must return to Amsterdam to see some originals of her work + perhaps stalk her for ideas!

[BeatEmorBurnEm]

Hearing these described from the artist's own mouth is awesome! amazing works.

[noieuse]

@mkrbyarts 

[mkrbyarts]

Love Love Love.

[siodoor1]

I like her face when she said "Shadow".

[MARCSPANJERSNL]

Viva Marlene!

[JiveDadson]

I admire her ability to get paid for those.

[nicebiscuit]

""People always want to know where you come from and where the paintings started, but one should actually find the meaning of where it ended not necessarily where it started or anywhere between the beginning and the end there lies the shadow..."

Purlease

[pues13]

@allaboutdmagic she is wonderfully great at depicting the human figure but i dont think she is the best. in my opinion, lucian freud has her beat. egon and marlene do however share a great expressionistic quality. maybe its because they both approach painting with a light touch

[bflip]

@xwaystranger how do you paint the unknown? what you mean, is an artist should imply the unkown, and they can certainly do that with the figure.... you're an idiot

[IchorDarkness]

@xwaystranger

Doing the same thing more than once isn't for the sake of repetition, it's for refinement and better understanding of an idea. It also helps convey the concept to an audience through cohesion. Yes, she could have done it just once. And no, I don't really think she's that great, either.

[destroyer820]

Oh, marlene I love you