Marcel Dzama

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of new and recent work by Marcel Dzama, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Dzama’s recent works are fantastical visions of a lush and at-times flooded world where anthropomorphized animals and dancing figures are set against dense junglescapes and expansive skies. References to Francisco Goya and the Spanish surrealist poet Federico García Lorca are evident throughout these compositions, suggesting parallels between the war-torn and uncertain eras in which those artists lived and the political, social, and ecological upheavals of our own. At the same time, Dzama evokes a sense of joy and wonder in these works that suggests hope and possibility even in dark times. A centerpiece of the exhibition will be Dzama’s 2023 film To live on the Moon (For Lorca), which was commissioned by Performa for that year’s iteration of the recurring performance festival in New York.