The Art Newspaper

Football-mad Marlene parties in Porto

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 04 July 2010

Marlene Dumas

There was a feisty crowd at the opening of the Marlene Dumas show at Museu Serralves in Porto on Friday (until 10 October) and no-one was feistier than the artist herself. Jubilant following Holland's victory over Brazil in the football World Cup (2-1 to the Netherlands), Dumas exclaimed that it "was difficult to look at art because the Dutch have won!" The artist, who has broken her arm, was sporting an unusually stylish sling which, she explained to The Art Newspaper, was made out of her pyjamas. Meanwhile, curator Leon Krempel of the Haus der Kunst in Munich revealed further details about his Dumas show in October that will juxtapose Old Master portraits (in the style of "tronies"-character heads) with "head" paintings by the South African-born practitioner. And the most illuminating "overheard" comment of the evening? "Chris Dercon [newly appointed Tate Modern director) will certainly organise a Dumas show in London. He's championed her for years."