Slight Delight, 1996
Drawing, 125 x 70 cm.
Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community, image: © M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK006911-005).
"I use all the cheap tricks of attracting attention: eyes looking at you, sexual parts exposed or deliberately covered. The primitive pull of recognition. The image as prostitute. You are forced to say yes or no." Marlene Dumas
Interestingly, it is the female nude, one of the canonical forms of Western art history, that occupies a central place in these watercolors. At first glance, the five watercolors from the MD–Pin Up Series in the collection of M HKA, Blind Joy, Indian Summer, Mis-Cast, Sailor’s Dream and Slight Delight [all made in 1996] seem devoid of the embittered, lugubrious undertone that is characteristic of much of the artist’s work in oil; they appear as symbols of a certain pleasure that may prove more empowering than we are willing to admit as we enter the minefield of post-feminist gender politics. However, the paintings are based on Polaroids Dumas made during a visit to a notorious Amsterdam strip club named Casa Rosso, as well as on photographs cut out of pornographic magazines.
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> Marlene Dumas.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Herzele – Beyond words. M HKA, Herzele, 03 April 2015 - 03 May 2015.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Genk - Genkenaren kiezen kunst. C-Mine, Genk, 02 July 2014 - 31 August 2014.
> 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.
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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: internationaal & wereldwijd [international & worldwide].
> Ensemble: beeld.
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> Ensemble: Pin-Ups.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Marlene Dumas.
Related Items
>Marlene Dumas, Indian Summer, 1996.Drawing, aquarelle, paper, 125 x 70 cm.
>Marlene Dumas, Mis-Cast, 1996.Drawing, aquarelle, paper, 125 x 70 cm.
>Marlene Dumas, Blind Joy, 1996.Drawing, aquarel on paper, 125 x 70 cm.
>Marlene Dumas, Sailor's Dream, 1996.Drawing, watercolour, paper, 125 x 70 cm.