Celeste talks about Marcel Dzama yo!
Contemporary, issue 83, 2006, pages 56-59
This works by Marcel Dzama didn't initially grab my attention because they were so dull in colour and didn't seem to be about anything intersting. But i realised that he uses this technique to disguis his subject matter, which includes murder, harm, troubling mystique, war crimes, fear etc etc.
Untitled, 2003. Ink and watercolour on paper. 27.9c x 35.6 cm. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York , NY from the following website...
http://www.sobeyartaward.ca/news/images/Dzama_untitled1.jpg
Marcel Dzama, Untitled, 2003, Ink and watercolor on paper, 11 x 14 inches from the following website...
http://www.artfacts.net/exhibpics/14271.jpg
His work also has this real cutesy meets mystical charm too, which i am always a sucker for. It seems like something you'd find in an instruction booklet that's written in another language that, at first glance, is irrelevant imagery then after close inspection proves worthwhile.
he's also had a series of his images made into toys... as so many contemporary artists seem to do these days...
The Saddest Ghost Lamp and The Monsters of Winnipeg Folklore, Marcel Dzama, Canada (2004), taken from the following website...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/photoessay/designertoys/designertoys7.jpg
You might also recognise his work from Beck's 'Guero' album cover sleeve...
and he's also worked with Spike Jonze in one of his films doing costume (in Sad Ghost which is due out this year and i don't think is out in Australia yet)... anyway Spike Jonze has made HEAPS of music videos and also ADAPTATION. And through this article I discovered that Spike Jonze is currently in writing / production of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE which is due out in 2008, GET EXCITED CHILDHOOD FANTASIES COME TRUE. slightly irrelevant but if you consider my conclusion maybe not.
In conclusion turns out that Dzama is rad and everything he's done rocks.
the end.
This works by Marcel Dzama didn't initially grab my attention because they were so dull in colour and didn't seem to be about anything intersting. But i realised that he uses this technique to disguis his subject matter, which includes murder, harm, troubling mystique, war crimes, fear etc etc.
Untitled, 2003. Ink and watercolour on paper. 27.9c x 35.6 cm. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York , NY from the following website...
http://www.sobeyartaward.ca/news/images/Dzama_untitled1.jpg
Marcel Dzama, Untitled, 2003, Ink and watercolor on paper, 11 x 14 inches from the following website...
http://www.artfacts.net/exhibpics/14271.jpg
His work also has this real cutesy meets mystical charm too, which i am always a sucker for. It seems like something you'd find in an instruction booklet that's written in another language that, at first glance, is irrelevant imagery then after close inspection proves worthwhile.
he's also had a series of his images made into toys... as so many contemporary artists seem to do these days...
The Saddest Ghost Lamp and The Monsters of Winnipeg Folklore, Marcel Dzama, Canada (2004), taken from the following website...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/photoessay/designertoys/designertoys7.jpg
You might also recognise his work from Beck's 'Guero' album cover sleeve...
and he's also worked with Spike Jonze in one of his films doing costume (in Sad Ghost which is due out this year and i don't think is out in Australia yet)... anyway Spike Jonze has made HEAPS of music videos and also ADAPTATION. And through this article I discovered that Spike Jonze is currently in writing / production of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE which is due out in 2008, GET EXCITED CHILDHOOD FANTASIES COME TRUE. slightly irrelevant but if you consider my conclusion maybe not.
In conclusion turns out that Dzama is rad and everything he's done rocks.
the end.
posted by Polly Dance at 4:55 PM
3 Comments:
sylvia: thanks for the introduction to one of my new favourites celeste!!!
i really like the first two images. very dark themes, i find them as powerful images in their simplicity. wouldnt work without the colours he has used and the simple lines. reminds me of illustrations in a childrens book gone wrong.
licking knives is never a good idea, my mumma taught me that.
ray say: yo jose nice one.this stuff is super super cool.i can't believe you didn't like it straight up. i am interested now to see more for my self all thanks to you.
ps. i love toys.specially ones like this.
sylvia:
p.s celeste, whilst i was flipping through a few of the journals today i came across a really similar image, done by artist Ruby Osorio.
Check out Sticks and Bows, 2006
Ink, thread and colored pencil on paper, at this website...
http://www.cherryandmartin.com/artist_info.php?id=6&page=4
i'm really a sucker for thread being stitched into images giving it this subtle 3D feel. its a really cool style.
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