Marcel Dzama
Drawings by Marcel Dzama: From the Bernardi Collection
James Patten & Wayne Baerwaldt
Over the past few years Marcel Dzama's drawings have been attracting considerable attention. His odd mutant figures, with their ambiguous relationship to other figures, objects and situations, are infused with a radiant innocence and an idiosyncratic sense of humour far removed from other strategies that have fueled artmaking over the past decade. In this most comprehensive publication on Dzama's work to date, Patten examines the seminal evolution of Dzama's idiosyncratic approach to drawing between 1996 and 2001. Referring to Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of grotesque humour and the carnivalesque, he demonstrates how each drawing is an amalgam of allusions to 20th century popular culture. With an introduction by Wayne Baerwaldt, director of the Power Plant. Originally from Winnipeg, Marcel Dzama has had numerous solo exhibitions, notably at the Los Angeles Invitational Biennial, Richard Heller Gallery of Santa Monica and Sies + Hoke of Dusseldorf. He has also exhibited widely as a member of the Royal Art Lodge, most recently at New York's Drawing Room.
Art Gallery of Windsor (2005) 124 pp 100 col. ill. 8 x 7.5 in softcover 0-919837-70-0 $30.00 (24 euros)
Short Stories
James Patten, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan
An examination of the use of narrative in the work of five contemporary artists. Like a short story - which jumps right into the action, eschewing character development and social context - these works avoid linear narrative and incorporate references to history, popular fiction and news stories into more subjective tales of personal and collective memory. Participating artists include Landon Mackenzie, Marcel Dzama and Sara Hartland Rowe. Two curatorial essays are accompanied by an actual short story. Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's written project, The Headless Woman and her Sword-Swallowing Man, is printed here for the first time.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (2003) 72 pp 13 col. ill. 7 x 5 in softcover 0889152187 $7.95 Can./U.S.
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