Exhibition - Stripping Girls (2000)

Marlene Dumas is a South African painter who is known for her contemporary ideas of racial, sexual, and social identity in which she expresses through her paintings. Between the years 1998 and 2000, Corbijn took his camera lens away from the musicians and actors and collaborated with Dumas in a new direction on something that he had never done before.

I think this quote says everything.
Corbijn: I'm looking for the person behind the surface

Home - 1999

http://www.lipanjepuntin.com/opera.php?id_autore=30&id_opera=304&artist=&artwork=Home

Soul - 1999

http://www.lipanjepuntin.com/opera.php?id_autore=30&id_opera=307&artist=&artwork=Soul

Ingrid - 1999

http://www.lipanjepuntin.com/opera.php?id_autore=30&id_opera=314&artist=&artwork=Ingrid

Krisztina - 1999

http://www.lipanjepuntin.com/opera.php?id_autore=30&id_opera=315&artist=&artwork=Krisztina

I think this was a great idea for a projec and exhibitiont. The second two pictures show us that these women are the same as any other woman walking down the street, however they are in a business where there work is seen as crude and explicit, and are treated like objects.

Corbijn generally likes to picture his subject in their normal and comfortable surroundings, whether it's film stars, musicians or other celebrities. He does the same then with these women brilliantly in this exhibition, showing us a normal side to the person and taking them out of the life that we would usually associate them with.


The exhibition took place in the following venues in 2000:
Theater Instituut, Amsterdam, Holland
S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France
Lipanje Puntin, Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy

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