Marlene Dumas Alan Turing, 2015
Piezographic print and graphite on paper
17 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches (44 x 35 cm)
Framed: 20 5/8 x 16 3/4 inches (52.4 x 42.5 cm)
Edition of 100, 15 AP
Published by Bernard Ruijgrok Piezografie Signed, titled, dated, numbered, and inscribed recto
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) is widely regarded as one of the most influential painters working today. Over the past four decades, she has continuously probed the complexities of identity and representation in her work. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1953, Dumas moved to Amsterdam in 1976, where she has since lived and worked. Her paintings and drawings, frequently devoted to depictions of the human form, are typically culled from a vast archive of images collected by the artist, including art-historical materials, mass media sources, and personal snapshots of friends and family. Gestural, fluid, and frequently spectral, Dumas’s works reframe and recontextualize her subjects, exploring the ambiguous and shifting boundaries between public and private selves.