JIM DINE (USA, FÖDD 1935). “Pinocchio's Unhappiness About Those He Cares About”.
Description
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 149.9 x 100 cm. Signed Jim Dine and dated 1 Nov 2013 on verso.
PROVENANCE
Pace Gallery
Wetterling Gallery
EXHIBITED
Hearts of Stone, Wetterling Gallery, 29 May - 27 June 2015
Jim Dine, American artist born in 1935, has cemented himself as a significant figure in contemporary art with his bold and diverse artistic practice. With a career spanning more than six decades, Dine has explored a variety of media and styles, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, poetry and stage design. His work is characterized by a personal and expressive style that often highlights everyday objects and symbols, such as tools, clothes, and hearts, and reshapes them into charged icons of human experience and emotion.
Dine is perhaps best known for his pioneering paintings in which everyday objects, especially various tools, are incorporated into the paintings themselves. His paintings of hearts and bathrobes are today iconic. He uses powerful colors, bold brushstrokes, and a suggestive poetic aesthetic to create works that both touch and challenge the viewer.
Jim Dine is associated with pop art, but he also belongs to the neo-Dada movement, which, like Dadaism, uses the mass-produced everyday goods of industrial society not only as motifs but also as a direct means of artistic expression. He also feels a connection with abstract expressionism.
Among Dine's most iconic works are his fascinating interpretations of Pinocchio, the famous wooden puppet from Carlo Collodi's classic fairy tale. Through Dine's artistic lens, Pinocchio takes on a new dimension, where the figure becomes a symbol of human aspirations, dreams and shortcomings. By placing Pinocchio in different situations and environments, Dine creates a multifaceted narrative of human experiences and emotions. Sometimes Pinocchio is portrayed as a playful and innocent figure, while in other works he can portray a more anxiety-laden and challenging side of man's inner struggle. Dine's paintings thus become a mirror reflecting the viewer's own feelings and experiences. Dine's interpretation of Pinocchio goes beyond the traditional children's story and offers a deeper, more nuanced exploration of man's inner world and its eternal quest for truth and identity.
In an interview with Hasse Persson ahead of an exhibition at the Wetterling Gallery in 2015, Jim Dine tells us: “A lot of my other motifs, like the heart, are like, landscapes, but Pinocchio is like a trash can full of human emotions! Every painting or sculpture comes out different - and I can never predict what the final result will be. Pinocchio is always with me!”
The auction piece “Pinocchio's unhappiness about those he cares about” is a fine example of Dine's interpretation of Pinocchio. Here we see a distressed doll who expresses her anxiety with an open look. It's hard not to feel for and cherish this little troubled boy! The painting is typically done in acrylic with elements of sand in the paint, which gives a vivid and very own expression.
In Sweden, Jim Dine exhibited for the first time in 1964 at Moderna Museet in the company of
Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist. George Segal, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselman. The exhibition was titled “106 Forms of Love and Despair” and has gone down in history as one of the Moderna Museet's most important. Even his large-scale sculpture of Pinocchio, placed in a roundabout in Borås, has caused a lot of stir. At first it was heavily contested but now it has become a beloved part of the cityscape.Show more
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Description
Acrylic and sand on canvas, 149.9 x 100 cm. Signed Jim Dine and dated 1 Nov 2013 on verso.
PROVENANCE
Pace Gallery
Wetterling Gallery
EXHIBITED
Hearts of Stone, Wetterling Gallery, 29 May - 27 June 2015
Jim Dine, American artist born in 1935, has cemented himself as a significant figure in contemporary art with his bold and diverse artistic practice. With a career spanning more than six decades, Dine has explored a variety of media and styles, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, poetry and stage design. His work is characterized by a personal and expressive style that often highlights everyday objects and symbols, such as tools, clothes, and hearts, and reshapes them into charged icons of human experience and emotion.
Dine is perhaps best known for his pioneering paintings in which everyday objects, especially various tools, are incorporated into the paintings themselves. His paintings of hearts and bathrobes are today iconic. He uses powerful colors, bold brushstrokes, and a suggestive poetic aesthetic to create works that both touch and challenge the viewer.
Jim Dine is associated with pop art, but he also belongs to the neo-Dada movement, which, like Dadaism, uses the mass-produced everyday goods of industrial society not only as motifs but also as a direct means of artistic expression. He also feels a connection with abstract expressionism.
Among Dine's most iconic works are his fascinating interpretations of Pinocchio, the famous wooden puppet from Carlo Collodi's classic fairy tale. Through Dine's artistic lens, Pinocchio takes on a new dimension, where the figure becomes a symbol of human aspirations, dreams and shortcomings. By placing Pinocchio in different situations and environments, Dine creates a multifaceted narrative of human experiences and emotions. Sometimes Pinocchio is portrayed as a playful and innocent figure, while in other works he can portray a more anxiety-laden and challenging side of man's inner struggle. Dine's paintings thus become a mirror reflecting the viewer's own feelings and experiences. Dine's interpretation of Pinocchio goes beyond the traditional children's story and offers a deeper, more nuanced exploration of man's inner world and its eternal quest for truth and identity.
In an interview with Hasse Persson ahead of an exhibition at the Wetterling Gallery in 2015, Jim Dine tells us: “A lot of my other motifs, like the heart, are like, landscapes, but Pinocchio is like a trash can full of human emotions! Every painting or sculpture comes out different - and I can never predict what the final result will be. Pinocchio is always with me!”
The auction piece “Pinocchio's unhappiness about those he cares about” is a fine example of Dine's interpretation of Pinocchio. Here we see a distressed doll who expresses her anxiety with an open look. It's hard not to feel for and cherish this little troubled boy! The painting is typically done in acrylic with elements of sand in the paint, which gives a vivid and very own expression.
In Sweden, Jim Dine exhibited for the first time in 1964 at Moderna Museet in the company of
Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist. George Segal, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselman. The exhibition was titled “106 Forms of Love and Despair” and has gone down in history as one of the Moderna Museet's most important. Even his large-scale sculpture of Pinocchio, placed in a roundabout in Borås, has caused a lot of stir. At first it was heavily contested but now it has become a beloved part of the cityscape.Show more
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