When I paint my master piece

Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series Watercolor and Gouache Paintings Exhibition 28 October 2007 - 3 February 2008



NEW YORK, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Dylan has agreed to allow the
first-ever exhibition of his work at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, beginning 28
October 2007. Although Dylan has been a committed visual artist for more
than four decades, this three-month event -- titled "The Drawn Blank
Series" -- will mark the first museum showing of his work.
Exclusively for this exhibition, Bob Dylan has produced more than 200
remarkably intense color variations on pictorial motifs from a book of
drawings and sketches done from 1989 to 1992, which were published in 1994
under the title Drawn Blank by Random House.
In the book's preface, Dylan explained that these works were intended
as sketches for paintings that he eventually planned to complete. These now
fully realized works -- photo-lithographs transferred to deckle-edged paper
-- have been stunningly reworked by the artist in watercolor and gouache
and will be displayed for the first time in Chemnitz.
When asked how Chemnitz came to be the venue for "The Drawn Blank
Series" exhibition, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Director Ingrid Moessinger
explained, "I first came across Bob Dylan's book of drawings at an
historical exhibition about Bob Dylan at The Morgan Library & Museum in New
York. I went straight out and bought my own copy and immediately began to
track down the originals."
Bob Dylan commented, "I was fascinated to learn of Ingrid's interest in
my work, and it gave me the impetus to realize the vision I had for these
drawings many years ago." He added, "If not for this interest, I don't know
if I even would have revisited them."
An extensive catalogue (in German and English) with numerous color and
black-and-white reproductions will be published by Prestel Munich, New
York, and London to mark the exhibition. The catalogue will be edited by
Ingrid Moessinger and Kerstin Drechsel and will contain essays by Prof. Dr.
Frank Zoellner, Leipzig; Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Paris; and Dr. Jens
Rosteck, Nice.
KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN CHEMNITZ
Collection
The museum has a collection of 65,000 art works, including 25,000
drawings and prints (Honore Daumier, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Picasso, et
al), and paintings, sculptures and drawings mainly from the end of 18th to
the end of 20th century (C.D. Friedrich, German Expressionists, Edvard
Munch, et al). The museum, on purpose-built premises, was inaugurated in
1909.