Jim Dine's 'House of Words' Exhibition at Accademia di San Luca in Rome
Jim Dine's exhibition at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome features his large self-portrait 'The Flowering Sheets (Poet Singing)' surrounded by five Muse figures, representing psychic energies. The show includes the 'Black Paintings' cycle from 2015 and an installation from 2008, previously shown at the Getty Museum and the Kunstmuseum Basel. The exhibition marks Dine's election as a foreign academician. Curated with texts by Lóránd Hegyi and Vincent Katz, the show explores Dine's personal imagery and his complex relationship with Pop Art, as he stated in a 1963 interview with G.R. Swenson in Art News.
Key facts
- Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati in 1935.
- The exhibition is titled 'House of Words'.
- The central installation 'The Flowering Sheets (Poet Singing)' is from 2008.
- The 'Black Paintings' cycle was created in 2015.
- The installation was first presented at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2016.
- Dine's poem published in 2015 by Cuneiform Press is displayed on the walls.
- Lóránd Hegyi is the director of the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne.
- Dine was elected as a foreign academician of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.
- In a 1963 interview with G.R. Swenson in Art News, Dine stated his interest in personal imagery.
- The exhibition runs until a few days from the article's publication date (January 2018).
Entities
Artists
- Jim Dine
- Lóránd Hegyi
- Vincent Katz
- G.R. Swenson
- John Cage
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Jasper Johns
Institutions
- Accademia Nazionale di San Luca
- Cuneiform Press
- Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne
- Getty Museum
- Kunstmuseum Basel
- Art News
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Cincinnati
- Los Angeles
- Basel
- Switzerland
- Saint-Étienne
- France
- Venice
- Church of Santi Luca e Martina