Marlene Dumas

Struggle(s)

Willem — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:14:20 +0000

Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium 19 April 2012 - 30 June 2012 group exhibition announcement

Art & Press [Karlsruhe]

Willem — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:34:23 +0000

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 15 September 2012 - 10 February 2013 group exhibition announcement

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s [Boston]

Willem — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:23:48 +0000

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston 26 October 2012 – 27 January 2013 group exhibition announcement

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s [Minneapolis]

Willem — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:23:18 +0000

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 30 June 2012 –30 September 2012 group exhibition announcement

Art & Press [Berlin]

Willem — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:28:03 +0000

Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany 23 March 2012 - 05 June 2012 group exhibition

Marlene Dumas: Sorte [video]

Willem — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:50:27 +0000

video made on the occasion of the solo exhibition Sorte in Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy, 15 March 2012 – 17 June 012

Sorte

Willem — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:13:37 +0000

Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy 15 March 2012 - 17 June 012 solo exhibition

Gute Gesellschaft – Lotte Hegewisch und das Mäzenatentum : Von Georg Friedrich Kersting bis Gerhard Richter

Willem — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:17:11 +0000

Kunsthalle zu Kiel - Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany 18 February 2012 - 26 June 2012 group exhibition

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s [Chicago]

Willem — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:29:25 +0000

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA 11 February 2012 - 03 June 2012 group exhibition

Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection

Willem — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:13:37 +0000

Sala de Arte Santander (Fundación Banco Santander), Boadilla (Madrid), Spain 11 February 2012 - 17 June 2012 group exhibition

Modern Painters: Forsaken

Willem — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:21:09 +0000

review by Hans Hartog den Jager for NRC of the solo exhibition Forsaken in Frith Street Gallery, London, England

Istanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanAbbe: Post ‘89

Willem — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:42:05 +0000

SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey 27 January 2012 - 06 April 2012 group exhibition

Sidetracks. Painting in the Paramodern Continiuum

Willem — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:10:40 +0000

Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway 20 January 2012 - 13 May 2012 group exhibition

The Turkish Schoolgirls in Amsterdam Museum

Willem — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:52:49 +0000

The Turkish Schoolgirls, 1987 currently (2011-12) on display in the museum street (Civic Guards Gallery/Schuttersgalerij) of the Amsterdam Museum installation shots

Reactie op de open brief van G. de Kleijn aan Marlene Dumas

Willem — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:08:09 +0000

Graag wil ik een aantal beweringen die de heer de Kleijn in zijn open brief van 21-09-2011 op de website van museum Gouda aan het adres van Marlene Dumas doet, rechtzetten.

Time Out London: an interview with Marlene Dumas

Willem — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:30:38 +0000

"A powerful show of paintings, 'Forsaken' pits Jesus against Phil Spector, Amy Winehouse and Osama bin Laden. Ossian Ward enters an arena of doubt and talks to the artist Marlene Dumas" interview with Marlene Dumas by Ossian Ward on the occasion of the solo exhibition Forsaken in Frith Street Gallery, London, England

NRC: Een machteloze Christus

Willem — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:11:35 +0000

review by Hans Hartog den Jager for NRC of the solo exhibition Forsaken in Frith Street Gallery, London, England

A Sense of Touching: Marlene Dumas

Willem — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:15:09 +0000

author: Ulrich Loock published in Cura., issue 9, Fall 2011 language: English/Italian

Moment : Marlene Dumas

Willem — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:50:26 +0000

Moderna Museet, Stockholm 14 October 2011 - 6 November 2011 solo exhibition announcement

De Nederlandse Identiteit? De Kracht van Heden!

Willem — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:02 +0000

De Nederlandse Identiteit? De Kracht van Heden! Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands 06 October 2011 — 04 March 2012 group exhibition installation shot

Faces and Contemporaries

Willem — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:33:19 +0000

Max Beckmann, Marlene Dumas, Alex Katz Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig, Germany 17 September 2011 - 22 January 2012 group exhibition press release

introduction by Marlene Dumas of her exhibited works at the Lyon Biennale, 2011

Willem — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:03:52 +0000

introduction by Marlene Dumas of her exhibited works at the Lyon Biennale, 2011

11th Lyon Biennale : A Terrible Beauty Is Born/Une Terrible Beauté Est Née

Willem — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:06:45 +0000

La Sucrière/Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France 15 September 2011 – 31 december 2011 group exhibition installation shots

Forsaken

Willem — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:42:31 +0000

Frith Street Gallery, London, England 14 October 2011 – 26 November 2011 solo exhibition exhibition handout and installation shots

And God Said – I told you so

Willem — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:11:58 +0000

God saw that art was all alone,
so he put him to sleep and gave him kitsch.

Or maybe, kitsch started with the fall from grace,
with the first denial, with the first stupid lie,
the first camouflage after Adam and Eve had
eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and [...]

The World Belongs to You

Willem — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:14:18 +0000

The World Belongs to You Palazzo Grassi (François Pinault Foundation), Venice 02 June 2011 - 21 February 2012 group exhibition

Venice is a beautiful place to be (playing together and against)

Willem — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:07:10 +0000

This is the year of 2011 and South Africa now for the first time has it’s own pavilion in Venice, which means from now on it will always (automatically) be part of the mother of all Biennale’s. We hope?

Many a South African has through the years already exhibited in Venice during these Biennale’s, or [...]

A lecture by Marlene Dumas

Willem — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:17:02 +0000

video of lecture by Marlene Dumas on the occasion of the exhibition Tronies: Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters

A dialogue with Chris Dercon and Marlene Dumas

Willem — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:16:58 +0000

A dialogue with Chris Dercon and Marlene Dumas on the occasion of the exhibition Tronies: Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters

For Whom the Bell Tolls [text]

Willem — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:06:47 +0000

My exhibition Mankind (2006) showed how every age produces it’s own ‘Most Wanted’ faces. The emphasis of this show was on male suspects.

In 2007 my mother died at noon at the age of 86.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (2008) was about loss [...]

Dineo Bopape, Marlene Dumas, Zanele Muholi

Willem — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:25:27 +0000

Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands 19 December 2010 - 13 March 2011 group exhibition press release

Tronies: Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters

Willem — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:33 +0000

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 29 October 2010 - 06 February 2011 exhibition announcement and installation shots

Capriccio: Tronies

Willem — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:53:49 +0000

excerpt from television program Capriccio (Bayerischen Rundfunk) on the occasion of the exhibition Tronies in Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany broadcasted on 28 October 2010 partly in German and English only

Contra o Muro [text]

Willem — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:59:46 +0000

The first mark is the worst.
The drawing of a line cuts the paper in two.
The drawing of maps and boarders turns neighbours into foreigners.
Within military cultures whole generations of children have grown up,
thinking only in enemy – images.

Art is a way of sleeping with the enemy.

[...]

Contra o Muro/Against the Wall (II)

Willem — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:14 +0000

Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal 02 July 2010 - 10 October 2010 solo exhibition installation shots

The Portrait of Josephine-Eleonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Bearn, Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Willem — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:00:50 +0000

One of the most gripping exhibitions I have ever seen was the Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) retrospective in Paris, a few years ago.

The most beautiful of the many halls was the one dedicated to his portraits of ladies dressed in the fashion of that time with dresses just as emotionally expressive as their [...]

Against the Wall (I)

Willem — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:37 +0000

David Zwirner, New York, USA 18 March 2010 - 24 April 2010 solo exhibition installation shots

The Third World War

Willem — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:57:30 +0000

‘Don’t mention the war’
John Cleese – ‘The Germans’, Fawlty Towers, 1975

(Or, How ‘Postwar Art’ Has Become a Contradiction in Terms)
We have to stop the Second World War
so we can stop the Third World War.
(Or, How the Language of the Second World War Blocks a Clear [...]

elles@centrepompidou : portraits de femmes artistes

Willem — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:31:12 +0000

video on the occasion of the group exhibition elles@centrepompidou Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 25 March 2009 - 25 March 2010

Measuring Your Own Grave (Menil Collection, Houston)

Willem — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:59:53 +0000

Menil Collection, Houston, USA 27 March 2009 - 21 June 2009 solo exhibition installation shots

Lecture: Measuring Your Own Grave (MoMA, New York)

Willem — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:34:29 +0000

video of lecture by Marlene Dumas on the occasion of the exhibition Measuring your own Grave

Measuring Your Own Grave (MoMA, New York)

Willem — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:09:44 +0000

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 14 December 2008 - 16 February 2009 solo exhibition installation shots

Video: Measuring Your Own Grave (MoMA, New York)

Willem — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:33:06 +0000

video: Behind the scenes: Marlene Dumas discusses the exhibition

For Whom the Bell Tolls [exhibition]

Willem — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:06:35 +0000

Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp, Belgium 6 September 2008 - 11 October 2008 solo exhibition installation shots

Interview Artkrush

Willem — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:03:44 +0000

interview by Shana Nys Dambrot for Artkrush on the occasion of the solo exhibition Measuring Your Own Grave at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Measuring Your Own Grave (MOCA, Los Angeles)

Willem — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:40:04 +0000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 22-06-2008 - 22-09-2008 solo exhibition installation shots

Measuring Your Own Grave (MOCA, Los Angeles) [video]

Willem — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:12:16 +0000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 22-06-2008 - 22-09-2008 solo exhibition video impression of exhibition

Measuring your own grave [text]

Willem — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:25:20 +0000

I am the woman who does not know
where she wants to be buried anymore
When I was small, I wanted a big angel on my grave
with wings like in a Caravaggio painting.
Later I found that too pompous.
So I thought I’d rather have a cross.
Then [...]

Intimate Relations (Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg)

Willem — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:13:11 +0000

Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 5 February 2008 - 29 March 2008 solo exhibition installation shots

Video: Intimate Relations (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town)

Willem — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:05:54 +0000

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 07 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 solo exhibition

Intimate Relations (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town)

Willem — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:13 +0000

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 07 November 2007 - 13 January 2008 solo exhibition installation shots

Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection

Willem — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:59:37 +0000

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA 05 November 2007 - 28 November 2008 group exhibition installation shots

Conversation with Ralf Rugoff on photography and modern life (extract)

Willem — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:12:42 +0000

Whether you start with a photographic source or not, that doesn’t change the basic assumption that a (modern) painter is more interested in images that in the actual living of modern life; and that painters are more interested in images than in the actual living of modern life; and that painters are more interested in [...]

Light and Dark 1987-2007

Willem — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:43:32 +0000

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan 17-May-2007 - 16-June-2007 solo exhibition installation shots

Broken White (MOT, Tokyo)

Willem — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:31:58 +0000

Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo, Japan 14-04-2007 - 01-07-2007 solo exhibition installation shots

Man Kind [exhibition]

Willem — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:21:24 +0000

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 17 October 2006 - 25 November 2006 solo exhibition invitation and installation shots

Man Kind [text]

Willem — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:37:51 +0000

(or here’s to those who inspired me)

This is not the times
for The Family of Man’s smiles.
We travel in disguise,
so how would you know
friend from foe?

The devil is back, as two-faced
and as polarizing as ever.
Who’s side you are on
depends on [...]

The Finger and the Eye

Willem — Sun, 14 May 2006 00:00:03 +0000

A conversation between Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas

M Steve, your film is called ‘Charlotte’. Can one speak of Charlotte Rampling specifically or not really?

S Well, obviously it has a lot to do with the actual person whose eye you see, of course. But then again if you didn’t know who Charlotte Rampling was [...]

Collateral Damage

Willem — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:55:56 +0000

Or: paintings of pictures that show that a painting isn’t a picture

Once upon a time, there was an American girl who came to Europe to further study her art. She worked for a while in a studio in Amsterdam where, before her, a Turkish-German girl had made paintings, in a building where an Irish [...]

Respect! Forms of Community: Contemporary Art from The Netherlands

Willem — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:03:32 +0000

Musée Dar Si Saïd, Palais el-Badi, Marrakesh, Marocco 16 November 2005 - 31 December 2005 group exhibition installation shot

Pretty Boys

Willem — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:04 +0000

Once upon a time, you didn’t exist
When I came here, to Holland (thirty years ago)
You didn’t yet exist here then
(your fathers did, but they were different)
You didn’t exist yet
As The Moroccan
As a specific group
As a concept
As a subject, as [...]

Marlene Dumas : Selected Works

Willem — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:17:26 +0000

Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA 18 February 2005 - 23 April 2005 solo exhibition installation shots

The Second Coming [solo exhibition]

Willem — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:15:40 +0000

Frith Street Gallery, London, England 12 November 2004 - 23 December 2004 solo exhibition installation shots

The Second Coming [text]

Willem — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:24:41 +0000

I wanted to call this show ‘Forever and Ever’.
I still think it’s nice,
because I never want to die
and I don’t want you to leave me ever,
and I believe art revolves around love stories.
I also believe that it’s not about
‘s there life after death?’

The Fearless Body: An Interview with Marlene Dumas

Willem — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:52:37 +0000

interview by Robert Enright for Border Crossings

The right to be silent

Willem — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:35:15 +0000

(a conversation on elitism and accessibility)

Who do you make your work for, he asked me. I have the right to know.
That humans have so many rights, does not make a silent painting wrong.
I don’t do it for the people and I don’t do it against the people.

Immaculate

Willem — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:57:20 +0000

I’m not moved, he said. It’s too static.
It’s so sad, I said. As if no-one ever entered here. As if no-one ever returned from there. As if it has never been used. As if all color has gone from the inside, has been drained. This is not the origin of the world. This [...]

The Death of the Author

Willem — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:56:35 +0000

I don’t want to see your source material, he said. It’s of no consequence to me when I look at your painting . It is no excuse and not part of the material evidence of the final work . You can’t judge a painting by the picture that inspired it.
It started with a [...]

Suspect

Willem — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:12:33 +0000

Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa/Palazzetto Tito 12-06-2003 - 25-09-2003 solo exhibition installation shots

Marlene Dumas: Schilderijen en tekeningen uit de collectie

Willem — Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:04:09 +0000

Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands 12 January 2003 - 11 May 2003 collection presentation installation shots

Simplicity

Willem — Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:34:27 +0000

It is very simple
Eros is about coming
And death
About going
somewhere

previously published in Marlene Dumas: Suspect, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, 2003 and Marlene Dumas, Phaidon, London, 2009, p. 148

As good as it gets

Willem — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:23:02 +0000

Now that ‘obsession’ is the name of a perfume and
Freud don’t slip no more, we no longer have to make
Vincent too beautiful to be true.
Van Gogh was not Antoin Artaud.
Van Gogh was not the star in Lust for Life.
Van Gogh was not keen on insanity.

Time and Again

Willem — Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:02:35 +0000

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 28 September 2002 - 16 November 2002 solo exhibition installation shots

Name no Names (extract)

Willem — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:18:55 +0000

Prisoners are told that torture will stop if they talk. But the rule rather than the exception is that after they’ve talked, they are killed anyway.

Names distinguish you from others, serving different purposes in different fields. A name is an identifying device. You can’t get the papers you might need if you don’t have [...]

All is Fair in Love and War [exhibition]

Willem — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:12:16 +0000

Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, USA 01-06-2001 - 07-07-2001 solo exhibition installation shots

Notes on – All is Fair in Love and War

Willem — Tue, 01 May 2001 20:52:54 +0000

Thinking about – Blocks, Bars, Crosses, Crossing out and Crossing over….
The Politics of Geometry versus The Geography of Politics

Stella

I’ve always enjoyed making links to other artists.
This often shows through my titles, which to me is like a childlike play.
The likeneness between these works are often only cosmetic.

Never say Never – Or one drawing too many (extract)

Willem — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:27:13 +0000

Serial killers

I am never going to make a series of heads again, or for that matter, a group of simi- lar yet different things placed next to or (too) close to one-another. It is effective – it’s not just drawing, it’s an installation. You are not just facing one image in front of you, but [...]

Bert Boogaard/Marlene Dumas

Willem — Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:20:53 +0000

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 12 January 2002 - 16 February 2002 duo exhibition with Bert Boogaard installation shot

Live Acts, Silent Studios

Willem — Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:06:34 +0000

Now that it’s over, I want to start

It’s hard for me to work next to and with someone whose work I like.
Not that it’s not exciting. Although I work alone and with printed matter as my models, I’ve always been attracted to photographers who work among real people. But it doesn’t seem [...]

A Gothic Story

Willem — Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:00:04 +0000

Once upon a time, there lived an enormous amount of painters and quite a lot of filmstars in all the big cities of the world. One day a painter met a moviestar and the painter thought, ‘I’d like to be a star, so beautiful, artificial and bright.’
And the star thought, ‘I’d like to [...]

MD-light

Willem — Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:18:42 +0000

Frith Street Gallery, London, England 26 March 1999 – 19 May 1999 solo exhibition installation shot

Beeldenstorm: Vrouwenkunst

Willem — Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:00:31 +0000

Episode of television program Beeldenstorm discussing The First People (I-IV), 1990 and Black Drawings, 1991-1992 (collection De Pont, Tilburg)

Hard or Soft : a conversation with Marlene Dumas and Andries Botha

Willem — Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:10:54 +0000

interview by Bernard Balkenhol and Matthias Winzen on the occasion of the exhibition Damenwahl

Miss World

Willem — Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:25:43 +0000

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 06 January 1998 - 14 February 1998 solo exhibition installation shots

Improper Relationships

Willem — Thu, 01 Jan 1998 11:08:19 +0000

If one can identify with ‘the pictures’ generation and with those who’ve
seen more reel love than real love
and one can appreciate Stage,
where the two shall never meet
because they were in different scenes and on separate screens, all along;
you realize that in the beginning was not [...]

Zelfportret van het kwaad

Willem — Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:11:06 +0000

article by Xandra Schutte for De Groene Amsterdammer

Do the right thing (extract)

Willem — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 13:54:24 +0000

Skeletons in the closet
To write about South African art and its politics (with the emphasis on politics)
I find very difficult. I distrust myself and all others involved with all our multi-motivational defences and references.

Every time I try, I shift my perspective and doubt my own sicerity. I want to say [...]

A United Europe

Willem — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 13:36:49 +0000

I never meant to stay
I suppose that’s what they all say.
It was my first time in a peepshow
so when the girl smiled at me
I said, ‘Only looking’, and she replied,
‘That’s how I got started here too.’

Art and Prostitution

If a Prostitute is a [...]

Miss Interpreted (Marlene Dumas)

Willem — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:53 +0000

two excerpts of the documentary Miss Interpreted (Marlene Dumas)

Goya’s The Fates

Willem — Tue, 04 Jun 1996 20:27:30 +0000

It has always saddened me that the art form that chose me as its mistress did not make people cry. Music does. Books do. And bad movies do it even better. But not paintings.

There are some good explanations for this. Paintings don’t move. They don’t have the same type of narrative structure or succession [...]

PIN-UP

Willem — Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:29:35 +0000

Can pin-ups still survive in a pornographic age? Somehow just like marriage and prisons they still do.

Origin

The pin-up is of American/English origin. As is the word ‘sexy’. It dates from somewhere around the beginning of the century. In Europe there were more pornographic pictures. These didn’t exist in America.

As a very [...]

Models (extract)

Willem — Sun, 01 Jan 1995 20:16:25 +0000

Magdalena
or the Megamodel meets the Holy Whore

It’s not the fallen woman
nor the temptress I’m after.
It’s not the babydolls I want
nor the Amazons. It’s everything
mixed together to form
a true bastard race.

Painting is my oldest subject
Fashion is my newest
and [...]

Not From Here [exhibition]

Willem — Wed, 11 May 1994 21:11:13 +0000

Jack Tilton, New York, United States 11-05-1994 - 18-06-1994 solo exhibition installation shots

Not from Here (I) [text]

Willem — Sat, 01 Jan 1994 20:15:15 +0000

The young child, the painter,
the foreigner are ‘not from here’,
they are often not part of the ruling
discourse, the preconceptions that
are common or fashionable at a
certain stage

I am not a New Yorker
I am not Dutch
I am no more living in South [...]

Home is where the Heart is

Willem — Sat, 01 Jan 1994 20:14:22 +0000

My fatherland is South Africa
my mothertongue is Afrikaans
my surname is French.
I don’t speak French.
My mother always wanted me to go to Paris.
She thought Art was French,
because of Picasso.
I thought Art was American,
because of Artforum.
I thought Mondrian was [...]

Kunstverein Bonn: Marlene Dumas

Willem — Tue, 11 May 1993 21:05:28 +0000

Kunstverein Bonn, Germany 11 May 1993 - 11 July 1993 solo exhibition installation shots

Give the People What They Want (extract)

Willem — Mon, 01 Mar 1993 00:00:13 +0000

In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what you want, the other is getting what you want (to paraphrase Oscar Wilde).

‘What is the work about? Is it about eroticism?’
‘No, it’s not tender enough’, he said.
‘Is it about cruelty? Is it that nasty?’ I asked.
[...]

Woman and painting

Willem — Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:13:04 +0000

I paint because I am a woman.
(It’s a logical necessity.)
If painting is female and insanity is a female malady, then all women painters are mad and all male painters are women.

I paint because I am an artificial blonde woman.
(Brunettes have no excuse.)
If all good painting is [...]

The muse is exhausted

Willem — Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:12:25 +0000

The muse is exhausted because she smiles too much The muse is exhausted because she works overtime. There's too many men and women that feed from her breasts.

The Blonde, the Brunette and the black Woman

Willem — Fri, 01 Jan 1993 20:11:27 +0000

I don’t want to sound like Michael Jackson saying “It don’t matter if you’re black or white”, because that is, like the issues concerning male and female, unfortunately still painfully burning bright! This is a sensitive area for almost everybody.
Yet it is not politically correctness that inspired these images, but the loss of [...]