Remastered celebrates another impressive aspect of music legend Bob Dylan’s creativity: his talents in visual art.
A dedicated performer, Dylan started what is known as his “Never Ending Tour” in 1988; between 1989 and 1992, as he traveled through North America, Europe, and Asia, he began sketching glimpses of his life on the road. The resultant pencil and charcoal drawings were a way to “refocus a restless mind,” as Dylan claimed, providing him a new outlet to celebrate the comings and goings of everyday life.
Dylan made three different collections out of the original drawings by “remastering” these works, adding vivid watercolor and gouache to digital enlargements of the drawings to create a new, special edition set entitled The Drawn Blank Series, which is the focus of this exhibition.
All three series were first seen in public during an exhibition at the prestigious Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum in Germany in 2007. After one additional show in Helsinki, the works returned to Dylan. Today, The Drawn Blank Series is owned by a private collector while the other two sets were sold to a private gallery. Dylan’s work has been compared to modern masters such as Henri Matisse and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. His skills as a draughtsman, in keeping with his talents as a songwriter, lie with his ability to tell an engrossing tale through the simplest and most evocative means.
Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings from the Road features ninety-two unique, original signed works.
The exhibition is curated by Ms. Katharine J. Wright, Consulting Curator.
Image Credits: Created by Taina Väisänen/TAKT Oy & Janne Alhonpää/Ensemble Oy
The exhibition was provided by PAN Art Connections.
Sponsored in part by The Clark Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Putnam.
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“The Spirit in Me Sings”: Luthier Thomas Lieber Explores Bob Dylan & the Creative Spirit
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Food For Thought: Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings from the Road
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