Opening/A New Way of Seeing: Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave.Byline: Staff - Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. : Measuring Your Own Grave - At the core of many spiritual and religious traditions is a potent symbol of death that serves as a reminder to be fully alive. As in lovemaking love·mak·ing n. 1. Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse. 2. Courtship; wooing. lovemaking Noun 1. , it is through the experience of pure physicality that we often feel a direct connection to the divine. Painting in these places of raw aliveness and pure physicality is Marlene Dumas, who was born in 1953 in Capetown, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , and has lived in Amsterdam since 1976. The work gathered here is from an exhibit that opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles This article is about Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum in and near Los Angeles, California. , then traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . This March, the paintings arrive at the Menil Collection in Houston. Some of these images are difficult to look at. Do you really want to bend over, stretch out your arms, and measure your own grave? Do you want to feel The Kiss? Or contemplate Dead Marilyn? But taking a moment to let these images creep and crawl around inside you may lead to the discovery that their passion is contagious. These are not paintings of lives half lived or emotions that skirt the surface; this work is truly wild and powerfully exuberant. |
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