Jim Dine is an exceptional artist who works across a seemingly boundless range of media—painting, printing (etching, lithography, linocuts, serigraphy and more), drawing, sculpture, photography, poetry, performance art and bookmaking. Since his first works made while still at high school, Dine has—over the course of seven decades—explored and respectfully disrespected materials and processes. He takes this approach to a new intensity in “Dog on the Forge,” the book accompanying his exhibition of the same name at the Palazzo Rocca, a Collateral Event at La Biennale di Venezia. Here Dine re-invents some of his most beloved motifs, including Pinocchio, antique sculpture, hearts and tools, all in eclectic combinations of media such as painted bronze and collage on canvas. The results, vibrating with restless, sometimes frenzied energy, are a transcendent leap into the unpredictable future of Jim Dine Studio’s never-ceasing creativity.

Jim Dine: Dog on the Forge
136 pages, 85 images
Hardback
18 x 24 cm
English
€ 25.00
Published by Steidl @steidlverlag
Exhibition Supported by @galerietemplon