...Virginia MacKenny Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 MARLENE DUMAS RETURNING HOME Virginia MacKenny arlene Dumas grew up in Kuilsriver out• governed South Africa...

... selected but Marlene Dumas was his ethnicity. defined conception of art is pre• these kinds of books that allows us...

... selected but Marlene Dumas was his ethnicity. defined conception of art is pre• these kinds of books that allows us...

... neighbors. In a second case, it is hard to fully understand paintings of black nannies and their white charges without un- derstanding other images of them that circulated in nineteenth-century Paris. By juxtaposing daguerreotypes of nan- nies; a caricature of writer Alexandre Dumas père satirized...

.... Others, such as Marlene Dumas, António Ole, Nari Ward, Fred Okwui Enwezor, Wilson, Yto Barrada, Wangechi Mutu, Meschac Salah M. Hassan, Gaba, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Kara Walker, Chika Okeke-Agulu Whitfield Lovell, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and Lalla Essaydi, are now frequently cited...

.... ritual purposes) and aradh (turmeric). Above this, she suspend• Funded by Marlene Dumas who was herself a young artist in ed the jeans, meticulously painted in exquisite red, orange and Cape Town before establishing an international career in yellow henna designs. Color, aroma...

... to black black-and and-white Marlene Dumas, who won the David Roell 1 photographs of her maternal relatives. Prize and chose to share the money...

..., and histori- they can go back to Germany or wherever else and cally things gather them. People give me their old share their encounter. For my part, I’m attempting stuff. Take this old book by a guy named Alexandre to intuit gaps in the cultural sphere that I live in. Dumas. Linda Johnson Rice gave me...

... by the community's elders for raping one of his pupils. The elders' centers on the chance meeting of the two protagonists: the middle-aged endorsement of the crime only perpetuates the process of seeming victim• teacher and rapist Duma Zamani (Patrick Shai), fatigued and paralyzed by ization already...

... edge of the page, where readers Henry Dumas. Six years after Dumas’s murder (by would turn it. The black book not only hails black a white police officer), Morrison makes his poetic readers but also incorporates their bodily gestures. words the beginning and the end of The Black Book. The open...

...- and never set foot in Nigeria. The same with Mar- ing. To me, he is enjoying the best of both worlds. lene Dumas, who has drawn seriously from the dis- To nominate something as contemporary, there- course on humanism in South Africa, which Colin fore, is to acknowledge that “thing’s...

...- (previously considered unworthy, and sometimes ing abroad. There are very talented South African now accepted because of public pressure) many, artists who live abroad and have achieved success many decades after white South African artists. internationally: Marlene Dumas, Candice Breitz, South...