Dimensions: 350 x 280 mm
Copyright: © Marcel Dzama, courtesy of David Zwirner, New York | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: This is Marcel Dzama's "Untitled," a work from his signature imaginative universe rendered in ink and watercolor. The dimensions are 350 by 280 millimeters. Editor: It feels like a dreamscape, but with a slightly unsettling edge. The palette is muted, but the composition feels crowded, even voyeuristic. Curator: Precisely. Dzama's work often explores themes of sexuality and violence within surreal, almost theatrical settings. Note the recurring figures and motifs, the animals, and the suggestive poses. Editor: I see echoes of societal norms and the theatricality of gender roles. It is both playful and unsettling, suggesting a critical examination of the spectacle of desire. Curator: Indeed, his aesthetic often defies easy classification, blending innocence with the grotesque to create a unique visual language. Editor: A language that, even in its quiet way, speaks volumes about our complex relationship with our bodies and each other. This piece leaves one pondering the performance of identity. Curator: A fascinating and disturbing piece that offers much food for thought.
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This untitled drawing shows a group of humans and hybrid human-giraffe figures intertwined with plant forms on a single plane in the style of an illuminated manuscript. From a series of thick green branching stems, shoots and tendrils spread outwards over the page, giving rise to simple leaves and red flowers of more than one species. An ornately decorated frame appears to grow from one of the branches; sprouting above it, two red fruits with cartoon faces look down on the scene on the page. Several small creatures that resemble puppet heads without bodies peer out of the frame’s ovoid dark opening. Their long necks echo the necks of several giraffe figures in the image: two disembodied heads on giraffe necks that float among the greenery and two giraffe-men that appear to be copulating with naked ladies – one couple sitting on top of a third fruit head; the other on the ground beside a curving stem. Nearby, a naked woman supported by a plant strokes the shoulders of her partner who kneels with his head in her lap; on the left side of the image, partially concealed by red flowers, a naked male figure watches and masturbates. Three identical brown cats sitting on a thick supporting stem are singing; musical notes float above their open mouths.
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