<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Marlene Dumas' paintings and drawings touch on major themes like death, love and sex. This work shows unconventional sides of female sexuality: powerful, intimidating, bloodthirsty. Dracula's brides, with their ‘all-revealing’ veils, assume seductive poses. Only the middle woman's white wedding dress refers to the Christian concept of virginal innocence. Dumas plays with stereotypical female images and with the viewer’s expectations. [text 2023]</span>
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Marlene Dumas' paintings and drawings touch on major themes like death, love and sex. This work shows unconventional sides of female sexuality: powerful, intimidating, bloodthirsty. Dracula's brides, with their ‘all-revealing’ veils, assume seductive poses. Only the middle woman's white wedding dress refers to the Christian concept of virginal innocence. Dumas plays with stereotypical female images and with the viewer’s expectations. [text 2023]
opschrift achterzijde r.b. (met verf): The brides of Dracula // 1997
Documentation
Beeldende kunst 1850-2001, Marja Bosma, (Utrecht, 2001), pp. 700-703, met afb. in kleur
De sekse van kunst. Vrouwelijke kunstenaars zijn er nooit genoeg, N. Baartman, M. van der Jagt, (de Volkskrant Magazine, 1998-08-28), 42-48, p. 44 afb. in kleur
Exorcism aesthetic terrorism : licht ontvlambare temperamenten in de hedendaagse kunst = Exorcism aesthetic terrorism : fiery temperaments in contemporary art, Wilma Sütö, Bas Heijne [met een voorwoord van Hugo Bongers en Chris Dercon], (Rotterdam, 2000), pp. 66-67 afb. in kleur
Exhibitions
De wereld van Utrecht. Topstukken uit vijf collecties, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2016
Samenscholing van werken uit de collectie van het Centraal Museum, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2003
Marlene Dumas. Solopresentatie, schilderijen en tekeningen, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2003
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