Lot 41: CHARLOTTE DUMAS

CHARLOTTE DUMAS DUTCH B. 1977 UNTITLED (MASK) (FROM THE SERIE HEART OF A DOG 2009 c-print, edition 3/5 45.5 x 61 cm / 18 x 24"

Some recent solo exhibitions
FOAM fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam 2009, 'Paradis'
Lawrence Markey, San Antonio 2008, 'Tiger Tiger'
Museum De Pont, Tilburg 2006, 'Rêverie'
Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome 2005, 'Day is Done'

Some recent group exhibitions
The Museum of the City of New York, 2009
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 2008, 'Tiger, Tiger'
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2008
Dordrechts Museum, 2007
GEM, museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague 2006

Selected publications
Dutch seen: New York rediscovered, Amsterdam: FAOM 2009
Charlotte Dumas: Paradis, Harderwijk: d'jonge Hond Publishers 2009
Charlotte Dumas: India, Harderwijk: d'jonge Hond Publishers 2008
Charlotte Dumas and Lawrence Dubrovich (ed.), Charlotte Dumas: Parlermo 7, Amsterdam: Smart Project Space 2006 Charlotte Dumas: Rêverie, [s.l.]: [s.n.] 2006

Selected public and corporate collections
Museum De Pont, Tilburg, NL • Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, NL • AMC Kunstcollectie, NL • Achmea Kunstcollectie, NL • Kunstcollectie Erasmus MC, NL• Rabo Kunstcollectie, NL • Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, NL • De Nederlandsche Bank, NL

donated by the artist

In her work, Charlotte Dumas explores the painterly aspects of photography. In 2002 she produced an acclaimed series of portraits of police dogs and police horses. Characteristic of her approach is the unbiased concern with which she portrays her subject. In Day is done (2004) she showed the horses of Rome's mounted police in all their vulnerability, in the nocturnal darkness of the stables. The intensity of the images and dramatic use of light and shadow bring to mind the painted steeds of Uccello, Delacroix, Géricault and Caravaggio. Dumas' work not only offers an eternal image of the horse, but also serves as homage to the individual animal – a tribute to the horses on battlefields throughout the ages. With her portraits of wolves, Dumas has taken an entirely different approach. While the series involving horses derives its strength and rhythm from the consistent manner in which they have been photographed, the wolf is always portrayed in a different way: looking up, sleeping, hunting, watchful or relaxed. But here, too, the incidence of light is essential to the sometimes almost brittle atmosphere. Her other subjects have been tigers in captivity, race horses and most recently the stray dogs of both Palermo and New York City.

Charlotte Dumas was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2001-2002.

www.charlottedumas.nl