Perhaps the most celebrated of his works are his intricate watercolour and ink drawings that depict a variety of characters including chess pieces; trees with hands and masked semi-nude females – the latter can be seen in The Renowned Union Jackoff, an erotic and ritualistic, yet disturbing piece.
« I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling. »
Marcel Dzama
Dzama has repeatedly cited Marcel Duchamp as one of his biggest inspirations – chess was quite often a central motif throughout Duchamp’s work, and is a motif that Dzama has adopted himself &
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Perhaps the most celebrated of his works are his intricate watercolour and ink drawings that depict a variety of characters including chess pieces; trees with hands and masked semi-nude females – the latter can be seen in The Renowned Union Jackoff, an erotic and ritualistic, yet disturbing piece.
« I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling. »
Marcel Dzama
Dzama has repeatedly cited Marcel Duchamp as one of his biggest inspirations – chess was quite often a central motif throughout Duchamp’s work, and is a motif that Dzama has adopted himself – for his video, A Game of Chess; the video depicts life-sized Kings, Queens and Rooks battling for supremacy.
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