Mis-Cast, 1996
Drawing, 125 x 70 cm.
Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community, image: © M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK006911-003).
It is the female nude, one of the canonical forms of Western art history, that occupies a central place in Marlene Dumas’ works. These watercolour paintings are based on Polaroid images Dumas made during a visit to a notorious Amsterdam strip club named Casa Rosso, as well as on photographs cut out of pornographic magazines. Displaying a sense of vulnerability that can come with sex work, Dumas adopts the ‘cheap tricks’ used to attract male attention – eyes looking at you, genitalia exposed or coyly covered.
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> Marlene Dumas.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The collection I – Fall 2002. M HKA, Antwerpen, 31 August 2002 - 10 November 2002.
> Exhibition: The collection II – Winter 2002. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 23 November 2002 - 09 February 2003.
> Exhibition: AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp. M HKA , Antwerp, 07 June 2019 - 15 September 2019.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Genk - Genkenaren kiezen kunst. C-Mine, Genk, 02 July 2014 - 31 August 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Herzele – Beyond words. M HKA, Herzele, 03 April 2015 - 03 May 2015.
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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Marlene Dumas. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Pin-Ups.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Marlene Dumas.
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