Study Visit: Marlene Dumas

On the 18 of April Angela Rogers will host a study visit to Tate Modern to look at this large-scale survey of Marlene Dumas. It is the most significant exhibition of her work ever to be held in Europe and a great opportunity for students.
Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent painters working today. Her intense, psychologically charged works explore themes of sexuality, love, death and shame, often referencing art history, popular culture and current affairs.

The title of the exhibition The Image as Burden, is taken from a small painting depicting one figure carrying another. As with many of Dumas’s works, her choice of title deeply affects our interpretation of the work. It hints at the sense of responsibility faced by the artist in choosing to create an image that can translate ideas about painting and the position of the artist. For Dumas it is important ‘to give more attention to what the painting does to the image, not only to what the image does to the painting.’

Artist Marlene Dumas talks about how her work Rejects has evolved over 20 years.
The collection of anonymous and well-known faces has now evolved into its own stand-alone piece which the artist herself is constantly changing and reconstructing.  It is the first artwork visitors will encounter in her exhibition The Image as Burden at Tate Modern.
To reserve your place please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk
Image Credits:
The Image as Burden 1993 Private collection
© Marlene Dumas