87 invisible as #GOD: Marlene Dumas, Gravità, 2012 - oil on canvas, 87 x 175 cm - private collection, Netherlands - copyright work and courtesy image: Marlene Dumas credits photography: Peter Cox, Eindhoven «It's a pity the Christian religion (not excluding Judaism and Islam) did not create a God sexless, like the angels are said to be. Now we have a God, who cannot be seen, but is the male supreme, the Father, who asks his Son to sacrifice himself, to prove his love, while the Mother who’s aware of this from the start suffers the knowledge of his destiny in silence from his birth to his violent end. This God, is not to be seen, but he is to be heard» Marlene Dumas for Ossigeno #07, Amsterdam, 2020 06 05 (adapted from a text first published as Marlene Dumas. Written in the Stars - in Marlene Dumas. Sorte. Exhibition catalogue, ed. Silvana, 2012)
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