18 - Making a Mark
A few metro stops south of Notre Dame lies Jim Dine’s Paris studio. Behind unassuming carriage doors is a vast industrial space teeming with paintbrushes, canvases and printing plates. At the center of the studio is a workshop packed with hammers, chisels, drills and power tools. Jim has been known to wield a chainsaw to make a woodcut and, when Charlotte Mullins visits, it feels as if this area is at the heart of studio life.
Recording with Jim Dine at the artist’s studio in Paris, 2024. © Jim Dine and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. Photo: Daniel Clarke
The tenth episode of Cristea Roberts Gallery’s Making a Mark podcast explores Jim Dine’s (b. 1935) lifelong relationship with hand-tools.
Tools have been a constant for the artist, not only as implements used to mark his plates and blocks, but also as ‘objects of desire,’ appearing as subject matter in his art for over six decades.
The Cristea Roberts team meets Jim Dine in his studio in Paris, where he discusses the first print he ever made aged 17 years old in his grandfather’s basement using a piece of wood and chisel. From tracing his early interactions with tools, to introducing new monumental woodcut prints depicting hammers, Dine also talks about the various printers he has worked with including the late Aldo Crommelynck and Kurt Zein.
Contributors include master printer Julia D’Amario, an etching printer who has worked with Dine since the 1990s, and gallery founder and co-director Alan Cristea, who describes the works and ideas of an artist that he first met 45 years ago and whose achievements in printmaking remain unparalleled today.
Presented by writer and critic, Charlotte Mullins.
This podcast episode coincides with the exhibition Jim Dine: Tools and Dreams (29 November 2024 – 18 January 2025).
Recording with Jim Dine at the artist’s studio in Paris, 2024. © Jim Dine and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. Photo: Daniel Clarke
From Cristea Roberts Gallery, Making a Mark is a podcast series that explores artists' approach to drawing and printmaking.
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Tools at the artist’s studio in Paris, 2024. © Jim Dine and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. Photo: Daniel Clarke
Jim Dine: Tools and Dreams
Cristea Roberts Gallery
November 28, 2024 - January 18, 2025
Jim Dine, Color and Ink, 2023, hand-coloured etching with charcoal and acrylic paint on warm white Hahnemühle copperplate paper, 138.3 x 105.1 cm - 54 1/2 x 41 3/8 inches, edition of 8
This winter Cristea Roberts Gallery hosts a solo exhibition entitled Jim Dine: Tools and Dreams, by the American artist Jim Dine. Now aged 89 years old, the exhibition seeks to illustrate Dine’s lifelong relationship with hand-tools, featuring over forty works on paper, some monumental in scale, from the 1970s to the present. Throughout his printmaking career, tools have been a constant for the artist, not only as utilitarian implements used to mark his plates and blocks, but also as ‘objects of desire.’
Jim Dine: Tools and Dreams
Exhibition Dates: November 28, 2024 - January 18, 2025
Opening Reception: 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Thursday, 28 November 2024
Confirm your attendance via rsvp@cristearoberts.com / 020 7439 1866
Cristea Roberts Gallery
43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG
Tues - Fri 11am - 5.30 pm
Sat 11am - 2pm
Closed on Mondays, Sundays and public holidays
(Closed 22 December 2024 – 1 January 2024)
