Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic Beste Prijs

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition “Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues” at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, featuring over 40 paintings and works on paper, combined with over 30 antiquities from the museum’s collection. Grouped into categories – family portrait, erotic figure, fragmented body and portraits of sculptures – Dumas’s works enter into a timeless dialogue with the abstracted human forms of Cycladic figurines created by unknown artists several millennia ago. As the artist states on the first page: “This is a book for all times; from being born, being young, being attractive and seductive, being betrayed and attacked, to being old and trying not to die.