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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