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RANDOM GRAPHICS: MARLENE DUMAS 6 November 19h00 – 1 December 2007 Upstairs at 34 LONG FINE ART The rumour of a Marlene Dumas exhibition in Cape Town has at last been confirmed as fact: a Dumas exhibition entitled, Intimate Relations, has been scheduled at the National Gallery for 7 November till 13 January 2008. Dumas has lived in Amsterdam for decades but has kept close ties with South Africa and the Cape, where she was born, and so a dedicated Dumas show is eagerly anticipated. 34Long Fine Art has included work by Dumas in group shows often during the last three years. This has not always been easy, as her work is much sought after; indeed, has risen in value to the extent that she is cited as the top-priced living female artist in the world today. She is best known as a figurative painter. Her darkly tragic images are most often drawn from situations of brutal conflict, sexual excess or unspoken coercion. Painted in a terrible language of fierce brushwork, deeply expressive colour and burning anxiety, they combine beauty and devastation into images saturated in equal measure with human cruelty and human frailty. It has been said, with good reason, that nothing shocks like a Dumas image, but it is also true that nothing is as heartrendingly beautiful as a Dumas image. Adding to the silently rising Dumas-fervour, sure to reach fever pitch in November, 34 Long Fine Art has put together a selling exhibition of graphic works by the artist: a compact but compelling selection of highly collectable works by Dumas, designed to complement the larger National Gallery exhibition. |
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