Till September 7 in Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands.
X-Ray Specs, 2011.
“Paintings that shuffle your senses”, says Marlene Dumas.
Quotes of Esiri (London, 1982):
“Lucian Freud and Jean-Michel Basquiat are the reasons I became a painter.”
Confessions of a Gigolo, 2009.
“I like that Nietzsche quote: without music, life ia a mistake.”
“My early paintings were inspired a great deal by my life at the time at university, my friends and the sides of London that do not necessarily make onto postcards. They were also inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s essay: ‘The Painter of Modern Life’, particularly the role of the flaneur.”
Warsaw, or the first breath, 2010.
“Juctaposition started out as a playful way of putting things together in order to bring about a contradting effect visually.”
“…I love text and I come from a writing background.”
Elvis meant shit to me.
“The way I have used my archive of images of the past is to wander into the historical narrative, extract information I am attracted to and then use that as a basis for new work.”
“I do explicitly refer to racism in some works because I am a black women living in a world where racism is still a very big issue and privilige is afforded to a few.”
Cynthia Rae, 2013.
Carpe Diem.
Riders on the Storm, 2009.
Courtesy: Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam.