ART
Jim Dine |
Written 30 January |
Monday 20 April, 10:00Galerie Daniel Templon, 75003 [map]Jim Dine
The American master of Pop Art, Jim Dine returns to Galere Templon with a new exhibition “Göttingen Songs”: a spectacular collection of large hearts painted on canvas. Dine is closely associated with the development of Pop art in the early 1960s and has unceasingly explored the themes of self, body, and memory through a personal iconography made of hearts, skulls, clothing, tools and bathroom sinks often attached to his canvases. The hearts are one of the most representative themes of his work. For the artist, they are the symbol of femininity but also the palette of the painter and can be read as a form of auto portrait. In the series of five paintings, Jim Dine refers to his painting workshop in the student town of Göttingen in Germany and to his memories of childhood and music.
Pioneer of happenings (chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world) with Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow and John Cage, and of Pop Art with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselman, Dine shows himself more than ever to be an essential artist of American post war art. His first exhibit was in 1958 at the Judson Gallery in New York. He has since exhibited at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and at the Pace Gallery in New York. For Dine, the tools used and the process of creation are as crucial as the finished work. Wood, lithograph, photographs, metals, stone are all used by Dine whose techniques throw out the rules and push the artistic envelope.
