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.
     Exhibitions
     Edvard Munch in Chemnitz
     1999 (170 works)
 
     Richard Serra - Prints
     2000
 
     Picasso et les femmes
     2002 (228 portraits of 36 women)
 
     Sol Lewitt - Wall Drawing
     2003
 
     Toulouse-Lautrec
     The complete print-collection
     2004 (360 works)
 
     Lyonel Feininger
     Drawings. Watercolours. Prints
     2006 (298 works)
 
     Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
     Die Deutschlandreise 1925/1926
     2007 (101 works)
 
 

SOURCE Columbia Records