- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > ドイツ書
- > Humanities, Arts & Music
- > Arts
Description
Choir of Poems is the latest proof of Jim Dine's irrepressible commitment to making art beyond artistic labels. Presenting paintings, drawings, sculptures-as well as compelling hybrid forms-this book shows Dine's passion for eclectic materiality while exploring his inner landscapes. As much as he is dedicated to the now-the moment of creation, of process-Dine's work today is often a dialogue with the past. Take for example the three works central to Choir of Poems, each a conversation with a different, dear person from Dine's past, loved ones now gone. Chairs stand before these expansive paintings as integrated sculptural elements, while metal pipes spring from the paint's relief-like surface (itself rejecting mere two-dimensionality)-creating a new imposing form of painting-sculpture. Confessional texts in Dine's unmistakable sprawling hand give insight into these works as well as other inventive series like "49 Views on the North Crescent," based on accident. Here Dine spontaneously drew plants and tools onto aluminum printing plates he had already prepared for lithographs; while a monumental bronze sculpture of a hammer deepens his ongoing fascination with tools: their forms, their materials, and the imagination they unlock within the artist. Seen together, Dine's choir is a vast self-portrait composed of individual voices, each an expression of his endlessly curious mind, hands and heart. Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ohio University in 1957 and has since become one of the most profound and prolific contemporary artists. Dine's unparalleled career spans more than 70 years, and his work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and Tate Gallery, London. His books include Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008), A Printmaker's Document (2013), Paris Reconnaissance (2018), The Secret Drawings (2020), A Beautiful Day (2021), I print. Catalogue Raisonné of Prints, 2001-2020 (2021), Electrolyte in Blue (2021), Storm of Memory (2023), Last Year's Forgotten Harvest (2024), With Fragile Spirit (2025) and Elysian Fields (2025), all published by Steidl.
