6 MONDO SCRIPTO
National Portrait Gallery in London.The exhibition later toured to Copenhagen’s Museum of National History in 2014, the Butler Museum inYoungstown, 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 artist’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 Revisionist Art and Side Tracks , a series of over 300 uniquely hand-embellished prints signed by the artist, 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, which depict 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 opened at Halcyon Gallery in October 2018.The exhibition presents a selection of Bob Dylan’s most iconic songs, handwritten in pen on paper and accompanied by a corresponding drawing in graphite. As Tom Piazza, a celebrated novelist and writer on American music, writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue, ‘Dylan’s restlessly creative mind is never wholly satisfied, and those familiar with these songs will find surprise at many a new turn of phrase.The unexpected couplings of these works and images offer a surprisingly intimate door into each song, adding dimension, delight and insight into the artist’s relation to his own work’.
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