Lithograph in colors on paper. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "the man said "why do you think you here," I said "I got no idea". "One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, Marlene Dumas (b. 1953 Cape Town) has radically expanded the vocabulary of painting. Many of Dumas’s works emerge from her substantial archive of images, which covers everything from art history to mass media and personal photographs. Her subjects include the crucifixion of Christ, a police mugshot of Phil Spector, portraits of Amy Winehouse, or a dead member of the Red Army Faction. [...] Drawing upon a range of different traditions, from the gestural language of expressionism to the critical distance of conceptual art, she reclaims different images, transforming them into vibrant, spectral presences. 'Second-hand images', she has said, 'can generate first-hand emotions’. Her fearless gaze absorbs everything with equal intensity, yet her work always returns to the pleasures of looking." - Frith Street Gallery

Sitography: FRITH STREET GALLERY, "Marlene Dumas", www.frithstreetgallery.com
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