Starting in September, the Stedelijk Museum will present a retrospective of Marlene Dumas, a unique overview of the impressive oeuvre of the Netherlands' most famous artist. The retrospective exhibition "The Image as Burden" is Dumas' first major solo exhibition in 20 years in the Netherlands and brings together nearly two hundred of her most important works from the late 1970s to the present. The exhibition takes its title from the work The Image as Burden (1993). It is a reference to the conflict between the painterly gesture and the illusion of representation.
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Municipal Museum
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After years of renovation with its share of setbacks and delays, the Stedelijk Museum is finally open to the general public again. The historic building has had a complete makeover inside and out, with the museum getting a new main entrance at the back, on Museumplein, in the form of a large, white wing. A ...
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