On the event of the sixtieth Worldwide Artwork Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Jim Dine, American painter, sculptor, and poet, is ready to take over the Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù with an formidable survey exhibition curated by Gerhard Steidl, Founding Director of Kunsthaus Göttingen. “Jim Dine – Canine on the Forge” is a Collateral Occasion of the 60^th Worldwide Artwork Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners All over the place,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

“Jim Dine – Canine on the Forge” presents round 50 works from the artist. Work, drawings, bronze and wooden sculptures, in addition to a formidable outside set up of large-scale bronze sculptures. The exhibition debuts monumental and site-specific works conceived particularly for the Biennale Arte 2024. By no means-before-exhibited work and sculptures will likely be organized in dialogue with one another and with artworks spanning from the ‘80s via at this time. Curator Gerhard Steidl drew inspiration from Dine’s relentless odysseys between the USA and Europe, in addition to his lifetime dedication to the idea of visible, cultural, and linguistic hybridization. “My entire life, I’ve been in movement. I discover it tough to take a seat nonetheless. It’s a hyperactive high quality, I’d say. I’ve all the time loved going from studio to studio, nation to nation. For me, touring is like utilizing crimson. It’s one other factor to make the image.”

Put in in a 14^th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, right here the traditional meets up to date in a palatial, Venetian context, casting a reflective gentle on Jim Dine’s private historical past and perspective. Reinterpreting his now classical language of instruments, hearts, self-portraits, Venuses and Pinocchios (which could have a devoted room within the exhibition), the present will take over the 2 flooring of the palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal in addition to its 18th-century sculpture backyard. When requested concerning the new work, Dine remarks, “I’m not desirous about making them fairly. I’m desirous about carving out photographs that may transfer you.” Conceived as a poetic journey, the exhibition outlines the complexity of an intimate oeuvre deeply rooted in his data of European artwork historical past, and a relentless exploration of language and self.

This exhibition is organized by the Kunsthaus Göttingen and supported by TEMPLON.

at Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, Venice
till July 21, 2024