{"product_id":"marlene-dumas-myths-mortals","title":"Marlene Dumas: Myths \u0026 Mortals","description":"The latest from the renowned painter-Marlene Dumas's new works  respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the  painting  process  itself.  Allowing  the  structure  of  the  canvases   and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the devel - opment of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of  these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open- ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is  with bliss and discovery.\n\nMyths \u0026amp; Mortals  documents a selection of new paintings-debuted in the  spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York-ranging from monumental  nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily  parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus  on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes  and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind  a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures  in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly  human. The smaller-scale paintings-referred to by the artist as \"erotic  landscapes\"-present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips,  nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is  the artist's uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her  constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture.\n\nAlongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series  of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of  William Shakespeare's narrative poem  Venus \u0026amp; Adonis  (1593) by Hafid  Bouazza (2016).  Myths \u0026amp; Mortals  is accompanied by new scholarship  on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665092251684,"sku":"9781941701997","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781941701997.jpg?v=1776899161","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/marlene-dumas-myths-mortals","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}