Marcel Dzama: Drawing on a Revolution
Publisher: La Casa Encendida
Publication Date: 2017
Introduction by Lucía Casani. Texts by Estrella De Diego and Raymond Pettibon.
Drawing on a Revolution is published on the occasion of Marcel Dzama's eponymous exhibition at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. The exhibition proposes a tour of the artistic universe of Marcel Dzama while presenting for the first time much of his most recent production, in which the artist encourages activism through "revolution".
Through the Canadian artist's imagination, figures drawn from folk tales, the world of comics, and television coexist with twentieth-century terrorists, fictional animals, ballet dancers, and opera singers. The social and political questioning is therefore intertwined with a world of fables and complex narratives where carnival, war, mythological, and ironic make up an artistic vision that incites multiple readings.
Details
Publisher: La Casa Encendida
Artist: Marcel Dzama
Contributors: Lucía Casani, Estrella De Diego, Raymond Pettibon
Publication Date: 2017
ISBN: 9788469756270
Retail: $30 | £25
Status: Not Available
Designer: This Side Up
Printer: Brizzolis, Madrid
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in | 17.1 × 24.1 cm
Pages: 204
Reproductions: 140 color, 19 b&w
Artist and Contributors
Marcel Dzama
Since rising to prominence in the late 1990s, Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) has developed an immediately recognizable visual language that investigates human action and motivation, as well as the blurred relationship between the real and the subconscious. Drawing equally from folk vernacular as from art-historical and contemporary influences, Dzama’s work visualizes a universe of childhood fantasies and otherworldly fairy tales.
Lucía Casani
Estrella De Diego
Raymond Pettibon
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