Marlene Dumas
Young Boys
1993, Oil on Canvas
100 x 300cm |
In
Young Boys, Marlene Dumas's line-up of ghostly lads
is stark and oppressed against the ominous background, trailing
off in the distance into mere sketchy traces of suggestion.
It's this suggestion that Dumas does best: a void of colour,
a bleeding line, she creates a subtle, unnerving, perversity
from an unabashed simplicity. This is painting with no frills:
full on, with nowhere to hide. |