Jim Dine
ALBERTINA Museum – Vienna
The ALBERTINA Museum is presenting the highlights of its large collection of works by Jim Dine – a representative selection of the artist’s generous donation that represents his oeuvre in a multifaceted way.
from 8 November 2024 to 23 March 2025.
The ALBERTINA Museum is presenting the highlights of its large collection of works by Jim Dine – a representative selection of the artist’s generous donation that represents his oeuvre in a multifaceted way.
The group of self-portraits allows for an independent, intensive and surprising dialog with the artist and his work. Dine experiments with a variety of techniques and materials and explores youth and age, intimacy and extraversion as well as seriality and creativity on paper. His figurative motifs such as bathrobes, hearts or tools can be read as representatives of the artist – as an objectification of his feelings, as Dine himself explains. The use and further development of different printing processes testify to Dine’s fascination with printmaking techniques in general. The upcoming exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of these aspects of his work.
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The artist
Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine lives and works in Paris, Göttingen (Germany) and Walla Walla (USA). Pioneer of the happening and associated with the Pop Art movement, he has always followed a unique path. He experiments extensively with different techniques, working with wood, lithography, photography, metal, stone and paint. The tool and the creative process are just as important as the finished work. The artist explores the themes of the self, the body and memory, drawing on a personal iconography made up of hearts, veins, skulls, Pinocchio and tools.
