curated by Daniela Lancioni

Exhibition promoted by 
Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Crescita culturale
Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
 

Image:
Four Rooms, 1962
Courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery and the artist
© Adam Reich, courtesy the artist and Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York

Yet desite his popularity, Jim Dine continues to be an artist who is difficult to pigeonhole with any precision, chiefly on account of his aspiration to independence and of his refusal to identify with any of the categories devised by the art critics, by art history or by the art market. The autonomy and freedom with which he has always addressed the panorama of ascertained values is exemplary, as we can see from the story of his life and from his work that clings so tenaciously to his peronal experience, an "uneducated" and "worrying" experience as it has occasionally been defined.

A major part of the exhibition will consist of the works that Jim Dine donated in 2017 to the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris which has, in turn, very generously loaned those works to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni for this occasion.

The exhibition will also be showcasing a considerable number of historic works loaned by private and public European collections such as the Museo di Ca' Pesaro in Venice and the MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (both these museums are lending works from the Sonnabend Collection), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz.

A selection of works will be coming over from the United States, including the two famous 1960s paintings entitled A Black Shovel. Number 2 (1962) and Long Island Landscape (1963) from the collections of the Whitney Museum in New York, together with Shoe dated 1961 and The Studio (Landscape Painting) dated 1963, both of which the artist entered in the Venice Biennale of 1964.