Marlene Dumas : Intimate Relations

One of the top-selling female artists in the world, Marlene Dumas is a young painter whose works deal with the cycle of life as well as issues of gender, sexuality, pleasure, and pain. This is an intimate look at her lifeand the intellectual, ethical, and moral questions that stimulate and absorb heras well as a comprehensive catalog of her drawings and paintings. Essays by prominent South African artists and her curator shed light on Dumas as a person as well as her creative work and its perception in the art world.

Marlene Dumas is an artist who combines Expressionism with conceptual art, often exploring the relationships between art, the female form, and sexuality.