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Lot Essay
"MY BEST WORKS ARE EROTIC DISPLAYS OF MENTAL CONFUSIONS (WITH INTRUSIONS OF IRRELEVANT INFORMATION)."
MARLENE DUMAS IS A FIGURATIVE PAINTER WHO REVEALS THE EXPRESSIVE ESSENCE OF HER SUBJECTS ON THE SURFACE OF HER WORKS. BETWEEN 1998 AND 2000 DUMAS, TOGETHER WITH ANTON CORBIJN, WORKED ON A PROJECT CALLED STRIPPING GIRLS, OF WHICH THIS WORK IS PART OF. THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR THE NAKED TRUTH BEHIND STRIP CLUBS AND PEEP SHOWS PARTICULARLY IN DUMAS' HOMETOWN OF AMSTERDAM. THEY HAD NO INTENTION TO GLAMORIZE OR ROMANTICIZE THEIR SUBJECTS.
DUMAS PAINTS FROM POLAROIDS OR PRINTED MATTER, THESE ARE HER MODELS, HER OBJECTIVE REALITY WHICH SHE TURNS INTO A SUBJECTIV EXPRESSION OF SENSUAL COLOURS AND FORMS. REAL MODELS INHIBIT HER, MAKE HER LOOSE HER FREEDOM OF APPLYING HER AMORAL TOUCH, THIS SINCERITY THAT MAKES HER PAINTINGS SO HONEST AND BRUTAL AT THE SAME TIME.
THE NAKED TRUTH
"THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF NUDITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY MAIN ARTISTIC INTERESTS, AS WELL AS THE REASONS GIVEN TO JUSTIFY OR BANISH IT. THE TRADITIONAL (MALE) PAINTER USES IT TO PROMOTE HIGHER AESTHETIC VALUES, THE FASHION MODEL TO PROMOTE CLOTHES, THE PORN INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE MASTURBATION, WHILE FILM STARS ONLY DO IT IF IT’S PART OF THE STORY. MOST PEOPLE DON’T DO IT AT ALL… AND THE TEASER MAKES YOU BEGOR IT." (M. DUMAS AND A. CORBIJN, STRIPPING GIRLS, AMSTERDAM 2000)
MARLENE DUMAS IS A FIGURATIVE PAINTER WHO REVEALS THE EXPRESSIVE ESSENCE OF HER SUBJECTS ON THE SURFACE OF HER WORKS. BETWEEN 1998 AND 2000 DUMAS, TOGETHER WITH ANTON CORBIJN, WORKED ON A PROJECT CALLED STRIPPING GIRLS, OF WHICH THIS WORK IS PART OF. THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR THE NAKED TRUTH BEHIND STRIP CLUBS AND PEEP SHOWS PARTICULARLY IN DUMAS' HOMETOWN OF AMSTERDAM. THEY HAD NO INTENTION TO GLAMORIZE OR ROMANTICIZE THEIR SUBJECTS.
DUMAS PAINTS FROM POLAROIDS OR PRINTED MATTER, THESE ARE HER MODELS, HER OBJECTIVE REALITY WHICH SHE TURNS INTO A SUBJECTIV EXPRESSION OF SENSUAL COLOURS AND FORMS. REAL MODELS INHIBIT HER, MAKE HER LOOSE HER FREEDOM OF APPLYING HER AMORAL TOUCH, THIS SINCERITY THAT MAKES HER PAINTINGS SO HONEST AND BRUTAL AT THE SAME TIME.
THE NAKED TRUTH
"THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF NUDITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY MAIN ARTISTIC INTERESTS, AS WELL AS THE REASONS GIVEN TO JUSTIFY OR BANISH IT. THE TRADITIONAL (MALE) PAINTER USES IT TO PROMOTE HIGHER AESTHETIC VALUES, THE FASHION MODEL TO PROMOTE CLOTHES, THE PORN INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE MASTURBATION, WHILE FILM STARS ONLY DO IT IF IT’S PART OF THE STORY. MOST PEOPLE DON’T DO IT AT ALL… AND THE TEASER MAKES YOU BEGOR IT." (M. DUMAS AND A. CORBIJN, STRIPPING GIRLS, AMSTERDAM 2000)