For the first time in Pietrasanta, Flora Bigai Arte Contemporanea is inaugurating a solo exhibition by American artist Jim Dine, featuring a selection of paintings and sculptures from the 2000s that retrace recurring themes in his artistic production.
Among the most distinctive elements of his career are the "Hearts," which are found on display in six paintings. These subjects are defined by rapid brushstrokes, oil paint, charcoal, and sand, applied in thick layers that sometimes conceal construction tools glued to the canvas.
Two sculptures are also on display, including a "Venus," which demonstrates Dine's interest in ancient art, a passion passed down from his mother from an early age.
The exhibition is completed by two self-portraits called "Heads" and a work over three meters tall in which Jim Dine's color palette is revealed in all its power.
This exhibition aims to partially retrace the career of this eccentric artist, a self-described lone wolf, whose work is autobiographical and, as he himself quotes, "my theme is me." A multifaceted artist who, over the course of his sixty-year career, has dedicated himself to diverse media, including painting, sculpture, poetry, and performance. Jim Dine is a pioneer of the emergence of Happenings and a leading exponent of Neo-Dada, an artistic movement born in the late 1950s in the United States that rebelled against Abstract Expressionism, reviving the Dada experience and updating the lessons of Marcel Duchamp's readymade.

Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine moved to New York in the late 1950s, where the generation of American artists would soon explode with Pop Art (Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann).

He currently lives and works between Paris and Washington State.

Thanks to Jim Dine Studio.