There are artists and there are artists – and Bob Dylan is both: The world-famed guitar strummer is an almost equally mean hand with pencil and paintbrush.
It is Dylan’s visual, rather than aural, oeuvre that is on display in Shanghai in a high-profile, multi-media exhibition that flung open its doors today, that runs through till January 5.
“Retrospectum Bob Dylan” is housed in the Modern Art Musuem, Shanghai, a Tate Modern-style converted coal bunker on the bank of the Whampoa River in the city’s Pudong district. It features over 250 works loaned from private collections around the world and from Dylan himself.
It opens with giant LED screens running edited TV interviews — subtitled in Chinese — with the man himself. In one vintage clip, a youthful-looking Dylan makes clear that, yeah, oh yeah, he is definitely as interested in painting and sculpting as he is in singing and songwriting.
Projected still photographs and film clips showcase the poetic popster and clips from his concerts. His songs waft gently over the speakers as visitors progress from gallery to gallery.
Source: Asia Times | Bob Dylan paints Shanghai red | Article