6 MONDO SCRIPTO
7 MONDO SCRIPTO
The Bob Dylan on Canvas exhibition at Halcyon Gallery marked a new phase of the artist’s career with his first-ever paintings in acrylics. As this fresh medium opened up to Dylan during an intensive burst of ar tistic activity, he completed a significant new group of some 50 paintings, The Brazil Series . In the subsequent exhibition at Copenhagen’s Statens Museum for Kunst from September 2010 to April 2011, visitors saw how Dylan had developed preliminary studies executed on tour in Brazil into richly coloured depictions of countryside, cityscape and various characters including musicians, card players and troublemakers. A fur ther ar tistic landmark for Dylan was his first NewYork show in autumn 2011, when The Asia Series , which reflected on his time spent in China, Japan,Vietnam and Korea, was exhibited. During 2012, Dylan released his thirty-sixth studio album, Tempest , and was awarded America’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by Barack Obama. In February 2013 an exhibition of 23 new works on canvas, The New Orleans Series , opened at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. In August 2013, Bob Dylan: Face Value opened at the National Por trait Gallery in London. The exhibition later toured to Copenhagen’s Museum of National History in 2014, the Butler Museum in Youngstown, Ohio in 2015, to Kent State University Museum, Ohio, and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in 2016. Mood Swings , a major exhibition of new work by Dylan, opened at Halcyon Gallery in November 2013. Heralding the first public showing of the ar tist’s iron works – seven gates created from vintage iron and other metal parts – the sculptures reveal the artist’s lifelong fascination with welding and metalwork.The exhibition also included Side Tracks , a series of over 300 uniquely hand-embellished prints signed by the ar tist, in which he revisits the evocative image Train Tracks from The Drawn Blank Series . In October 2016 an official announcement by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, revealed that Dylan was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.This was the first time that the award had been given to a musician.The following month, Dylan’s major exhibition The Beaten Path opened at Halcyon Gallery.The exhibition featured a collection of drawings, watercolours and acrylic works on canvas, depicting the artist’s view of American landscapes and urban scenes. The Beaten Path invites the viewer to accompany Dylan on his travels as he criss-crosses the United States through the back streets, alleys and country roads. Reminiscing about a landscape unpolluted by the ephemera of pop culture, fleeting snapshots of America emerge from the works.
Mondo Scripto first opened at Halcyon Gallery in October 2018.The exhibition presented a selection of
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