Some 140 watercolors and gouaches by the hand of musical artist Bob Dylan – who has moved from songwriting and performing to the visual arts, here – fill this worldwide first of an exhibition with color and shape. Produced between 1989 and 1992, the works were published in book form in 1994 in black and white, yet had never before been put on public display, and had never bared such bold colors. Since this is a new look into an artist not known for his pictorial work – despite the fact that these pieces delve into some of the themes that have imbued Dylan's lyrical work (portraits of men and women, as well as landscapes tinged by his particular sensibility, still lifes, streets, buildings, cars and ships) – it can almost be considered a showcase for the birth of a new genre at the hands of a synesthetic talent. Perhaps Dylan, too, realizes how uncanny his genre-crossing is; the works are informed by a curiously detached, bird's-eye perspective. The world keeps on turning, and turning up fresh art.


October 28, 2007 through March 24, 2008
Theaterplatz 1
09111 Chemnitz
Germany
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