Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds.
Since rising to prominence in the late 1990s, Canadian-born
artist Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) has developed an immediately
recognizable visual language that investigates human action and
motivation, as well as the blurred relationship between the real
and the subconscious. Drawing equally from folk vernacular as from
art-historical and contemporary influences, Dzama's work visualizes
a universe of childhood fantasies and otherworldly fairy tales.
Leslie Jamison is the New York Times best-selling author of The
Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (2018), a critical
memoir; two essay collections, The Empathy Exams (2014) and Make It
Scream, Make It Burn (2019); and a novel, The Gin Closet (2010).
She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and
directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.
"The second in publisher David Zwirner's Seeing Shakespeare series,
the impeccable coupling of A MidSummer Night's Dream with
contemporary Canadian artist Marcel Dazma makes for a particularly
magical outcome. Dazma's vibrant watercolors of polkadot-laden
fairies donning butterfly wings, an ever-present moon with a coy
smile, and human-animal fusions dance off the page, portraying a
Shakespearean classic anew."-- "Vanity Fair"
"Offers a glimpse into the mind of the artist and his delicately
rendered, infinitely bizarre universe."-- "ARTnews"
"Since the late 1990s, Marcel Dzama has populated his
ink-and-watercolor drawings with sundry dismemberments and wounds
accomplished by swords, knives, arrows, guns, bats, and the
occasional mace; the malevolent images may be inspired by hellish
doings, but this is hell as circus ring or costume ball. His is a
fun-house hell where sinners are condemned to an eternity of
enigma."--Albert Mobilio "BOOKFORUM"
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