“I am really concerned about climate change but it’s not blatant,” he says. According to the gallery’s website, the waterscapes “seem to portend the continued degradation of the natural world” but Dzama doesn’t sound sure. ![]() Photographs from pre-pandemic travels to Morocco and Mexico informed the show’s friendly moons, radiant stars and tropical oceans, rendered in watercolour, graphite and pearlescent acrylic ink, while Neil Young’s 1974 album On the Beach provided the late-night soundtrack. Being so prolific means that he needs reminding of what he’s done. “I stayed up till five last night, finishing a new painting.” He has a charmingly gentle, unworldly quality. ![]() “I keep really bad hours,” he says blearily from his seaside house in Long Island, having just woken up. He has collaborated with Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak, Beck, Kim Gordon, Raymond Pettibon, Bob Dylan and the New York City Ballet. Best known for his figurative drawings, Dzama also makes dioramas, puppets, costumes, stage designs, films, songs, fanzines and sculptures. That freewheeling spirit has continued throughout the 48-year-old’s career. Among others, there was Professor Moriarty for heavy rock, Tumbleweed for country music and Danceatron for, well, dance music. ![]() While studying art at the University of Manitoba in the mid-1990s, he played in bands, and lots of them. T he Canadian artist Marcel Dzama cannot stay in one lane.
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