Marlene Dumas
Dicecream Magazine🔳Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African born artist and painter who lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
She creates figurative works inspired by personal memories and a diverse array of printed matter including Polaroid photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings, letters and Flemish paintings.
“I would like my paintings to be like poems. Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.”
Current exhibitions:
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
30 October 2017 – 18 February 2018
‘I am a Native Foreigner’
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 September 2017 – 3 June 2018
‘I am a Problem’
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
23 September 2017 – 18 February 2018
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