The exhibit will feature nearly 100 works, including the world premiere of 30 large-format acrylic paintings from the Bard of Minnesota’s upcoming Brazil Series.
The exhibit will also feature many paintings from Dylan’s “The Drawn Blank Series.”
“Bob Dylan’s artworks are informed by the same constant compulsion to renew that characterizes his music,” said National Gallery of Denmark director Karsten Ohrt. “He doesn’t seem satisfied with settling on one form of expression once he has perfected it, but is constantly experimenting and trying out new artistic techniques and styles.”
National Gallery chief curator Kasper Monrad is organizing the exhibit and compares some of Dylan’s work to French artist Henri Matisse.
“Several of Dylan’s images reveal an infinity for some of the modernist masters, not least Henri Matisse’s works from the 1920s,” Monrad said. “The choice of motifs, the unusual expressivity and the existential tenor in Bob Dylan’s works are testament to an imagery that is unmistakably his own.”
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