Groupshow

Groupshow

Dumas’ paintings are mostly inspired by photos and images she takes from anywhere and everywhere. Dumas manipulates them to create her own work of art: she distorts, intensifies, selects and chooses colours at her own will. By giving the painting the title, Dumas adds an extra twist to its meaning. This is also illustrated by Groupshow. The theme seems to be that even in solo professions, such as visual artists, one must at some point take part in group activity. Dumas’ statement is ironic: the figures all face away from the viewer, showing their bare behinds – as if Dumas is presenting the viewer with the back of the painting.

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Dumas’ paintings are mostly inspired by photos and images she takes from anywhere and everywhere. Dumas manipulates them to create her own work of art: she distorts, intensifies, selects and chooses colours at her own will. By giving the painting the title, Dumas adds an extra twist to its meaning. This is also illustrated by Groupshow. The theme seems to be that even in solo professions, such as visual artists, one must at some point take part in group activity. Dumas’ statement is ironic: the figures all face away from the viewer, showing their bare behinds – as if Dumas is presenting the viewer with the back of the painting.

This object is now not on display in the museum

Title

Groupshow

Artist

Marlene Dumas (Kaapstad 1953)

Dating

1993

Material and technique

olieverf op doek

Object number

27849

Object type

schilderij

Acquisition

aankoop met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting 1994

Dimensions

hoogte 100 cm

breedte 300 cm

diepte 4 cm

Inscriptions and markings

  • signatuur en datering achterzijde op doek (met verf): M. Dumas // groupshow 1993

More of the same motif

naakt

Documentation

  • Der zerbrochene Spiegel : Positionen zur Malerei, Hrsg. Kasper König und Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Katalogred. Uta Nusser, ([S.l.], 1993), p. 157, met afb. in kleur; p. 217

  • Dial 970-muse. Marlene Dumas's pornographic mirror, I. Schaffner, (Parkett : schweizer Kunstzeitschrift in Deutscher und Englischer Sprache, 38, 1993), 100-105, p. 105

  • Distemper : dissonant themes in the art of the 1990s, Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso, (Washington, 1996), verg. cat. nr. 3, p. 36, afb. in kleur (Groupshow II)

Exhibitions

  • Licked by the Waves. Baders van 1900 tot nu, Museum MORE, Gorssel, 2024

  • Open-End. Marlene Dumas, Palazzo Grassi, Venetië, 2022 - 2023

  • De wereld van Utrecht. Topstukken uit vijf collecties, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2016 - 2022

Persistent url

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.ED21CC52-536B-4271-8454-6B9AFCEE0421

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