Tuesday, December 12, 2006

MARCEL DZAMA

Winnipeg, Manitoba | CANADA

Well established in the modern art community worldwide, Marcel Dzarma is known for small, ink and watercolor illustrations depicting simplistic scenes featuring people and animals in a variety of situations (although he does do a considerable amount of work in larger format sculpture).

"Using watercolors and inks and root beer - his secret ingredient - Dzama draws delicately shaded, finely realized figures in all sorts of trouble. His works on paper are small in scale but impressive in their range of subjects and in the finesse of the draftsmanship. This is surrealism that treads the line between humor and tragedy, and teeters between normalcy and perversion." - Brut Sauvage in a review of Marcel Dzarma's work.

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INQUIRIES: Dzarma has managed to become a very hot artist among Collectors, and the prices fetched for his works have risen to levels beyond the scope of this site ($2500 and below). However, some of his pieces can be found at or below $2500 if you're willing to look around. Start at David Zwirner (NY). Also try Greg Kucera Gallery.
All images Copyright Marcel Dzama.