Caroline Bourgeois on Marlene Dumas
In episode 88, and the SEASON FINALE of Season 7 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the\xa0esteemed curator, Caroline Bourgeois on MARLENE DUMAS! \n\n*BOOK NEWS!* I have written a book! Order The Story of Art without Men here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-story-of-art-without-men/katy-hessel/9781529151145\n\n**This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.com | use the code TGWA20 at checkout for 20% off!\u2022\u2022\n\nA painter of the face, the figure and the human psyche and form, Marlene Dumas is one of the most influential painters alive today. Collecting raw emotion and translating it visually onto the canvas through paint, Dumas derives her work from second hand images. In turn, she creates internal portraits that trigger every sense in your body. \n\nContradictory and complex, verging on the sublime and full of seduction, they are also enveloped in pain. Made without any prior studies, she holds a feeling, an emotion, movement and life in the second of the moment. Although her figures are still, it is like they are moving, and although they are immortalised, it is like they are breathing. I couldn't be more excited to say that she is the artist who we will be discussing today with Caroline Bourgeois, the curator of "Marlene Dumas: Open\u2013\u2013End\u201d at Palazzo Grassi in VENICE!!\n\nhttps://www.palazzograssi.it/en/exhibitions/current/open-end-marlene-dumas/\n\nI was astonished going round this exhibition at Palazzo Grassi. I have seen a few works in the flesh by Dumas, but walking around, it was electrifying. Not only do these paintings pulsate with colour and exude sensuality, but they appear full of motion. Dumas captures this raw, internal human emotion that is at once full of strength but vulnerability. Not existing in any physical space, her works teeter on the threshold between life and death, internal and the external\u2026 It is like they are memories that are familiar, protective, but also ghoulish and haunting. \n\nLIST OF PAINTINGS DISCUSSED HERE: \nhttps://www.palazzograssi.it/site/assets/files/9808/guide_marlene-dumas_eng.pdf\n\nENJOY!!!\n\nFollow us: \nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Nada Smiljanic\nResearch assistant: Viva Ruggi\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/