Bob Dylon Attack: You Must Not Define Me.

I believe that many people grow together with a song by Bob Dylan: "how far do you have to go before you are called a man?" (Bob Dylon) How many seas do white doves fly to sleep in the sand? How many times will the shell be fired before it will be scrapped forever? My friend, the answer is blowing in the wind, and the answer is blowing in the wind... "

People say that Bob Dylon has led an era. In the early 1960s, he began to cry at the stage of folk music in Greenwich village of New York. Over the next few decades, he sold 125 million albums, many of which were popular songs in the world. He is a master of music and a poet in the era. His musical talent is the footnote of the times. So he won the Nobel prize in literature in December 2016 after winning 11 Grammy Awards. In this regard, the Nobel Prize judge Horace Ndale said, "Dylan's life works changed our understanding of poetry. If people in the literary world are dissatisfied with this, he should remember that gods do not write, they only sing and dance.

The exhibition of "spectral Bob Dylon Art Exhibition". - Data pictures

However, just as music can not define Bob Dylon, nor can Nobel Prize. Look at Bob Dylon's attack -- over 250 oil paintings, acrylics, watercolors, ink, pastels, carbon brush sketches and metal sculptures, spanning decades of creation, and airborne Shanghai art gallery. The visual feast is called "Bob Dylon / Art Exhibition of light / spectrum" from the end of September 2019 to the beginning of 2020.

This exhibition is the first time that Bob Dylon's visual art works appeared in China, and the seven series of Dylan's fifty years of creative career were displayed in immersive interactive experience. Among the more than 250 works of various forms and media, there are many collections of private collectors from all over the world. Bob Dylon himself said: "it is fascinating to see so many years of creation of Chi Chi. I do not want to separate them from the time, the region or the state of mind. I would rather regard them as dots on a long arc; they form a continuum, extending from the beginning of my life to the world, with the accumulation of my experience and the change of my cognition. No matter what happened in Morretes (Brazil) in Brazil or in Madrid, the people who sold it to my El Pa s, Moretti, could have a profound impact on me.

Bob Dylon's talent in writing and visual arts was gradually known to the world. In 2007, Dylan exhibited 140 works for the first time in Chemnitz, Germany (Chemnitz, Germany), making him famous as a visual artist. Over the past few years, many of his large paintings and iron sculptures have been exhibited in the world's most famous museums and galleries. As the famous commentator Sun Mengjin said, "these works have overturned my view of him. It can be said that we do not know much about Bob Dylon. Our impression of him is only limited to 60s folk songs, famous musicians, rock and roll representatives, and anti mainstream cult. In fact, his later lyrics are richer than before. He has witnessed the relationship between this era and human beings, and is very strong. His view of the world is highly independent. His paintings are close to the lyrics of later period.

In this exhibition of "Bob Dylon / Art Exhibition", the first ink drawing that attracted people's attention is the early ink paintings of artists, including the Writings and Drawings, published in 1973, which contains his lyrics and illustrations. In last year's Mondo Scripto, Dylan revisited his most popular song and verse with new handwritten lyrics and very personal style illustrations. In the The Drawn Blank Series (2008), the iconic work "Train" Tracks also appeared at the exhibition site, which is one of the earliest works that brought Bob Dylon's visual art talent to the critical and popular public.

It hopes to discuss with the audience what the core of art is in this exhibition. In the huge exhibition space of the art gallery, there are rich and varied scenes. Most of the works are scattered without frames, and the audience can reach zero distance. "We want to make a different exhibition," said Yu Guangzhao, director of the art gallery. "This exhibition is different from traditional exhibitions. Here, the audience is no longer a distant gaze, but can walk into the work, with a sense of immersion and immersive interaction experience. This is also the core of the exhibition.

Bob Dylon is writing the answer in his lifetime. The exhibition site has an endless view of his career wall, and the precise date is accurate to every day. It is also touching that he painted many "on the road". It includes the The New Orleans Series (2012), the "Asian Series" (The Asia Series, 2010) and the popular "ordinary road" series (The Beaten Path Series, 2015 to 2015). Bob Dylon's Monument style "endless road III" (Endless Highway III, 2016) also appeared in the exhibition, which shows Dylan's nostalgia for the American scenery and the infinite yearning for the future road. The endless extension of the road is all about travel. Everything is about transformation. It reflects the long and bitter taste of life. The works that reflect his frequent travels to the southern and western parts of the United States are particularly impressive. It seems that Dylan can see that as a sixty or seventy year old man, he still spans the back of the motorbike and flies across the gloomy twilight of the western United States. Commentator Sun Mengjin said that these works frequently brought him into the Cohen brothers scene.

Another group of distinctive exhibits is the industrial metal sculpture created by waste products. Dylan transformed manufactured goods into works of art, telling the marks of the American industrial age. His metal sculpture was first exhibited in London in 2013, revealing the artist's little known obsession with welding and metal products.

The road to the exhibition ended in a group of highly influential large size propylene painting devices. Then, the viewer enters a space simulating Bob Dylon's performance, perceiving Dylan's indescribable, undefined rich soul in joyous songs and dances. As Sun Mengjin said, "he accurately embodies the mixed cultural elements of the United States, which is much more complicated than" Poets "and" witnesses of that era ". He is a contradiction and will never tell you the truth of some contradictions. His face is so different that you can't decide what kind of person he is. "

More than 250 works, spanning decades of creative process, oil painting, propylene, watercolor, ink, pastel, carbon pencil sketch and metal sculpture, present another aspect of Bob Dylon's gifted master of art.