I See Berlin, the Underbelly. Grosz Takes Me to Café
DePrave Where Madonna is Having a Scandalous
Success, soft-ground color etching, aquatint, and relief.
12–13
Curator of
Education
Anne Lambert
to Retire
Zebras
Join the
Permanent
Collection
New Class of
Docents Joins
the Museum
Into the Trenches with Otto Dix. We Are Nearly Killed
by a Sniper (My Father?) I Call Out to Him, but the
Intensity of His Fire Increases, soft-ground color
etching, aquatint, and relief.
10–11
Current and
Upcoming
Exhibitions
I Ride with the Blue Riders. We visit die Brücke Picnic
and Enjoy a Bratwurst, Reminding me of summer in
Milwaukee, soft-ground color etching, spit-bite
aquatint, and relief.
Russell Panczenko, Director
Chazen Museum of Art
8–9
In the meantime, in distant Paris, France, Jim
Dine has been working on a large four-panel
mural for the Chazen. Based on the artist’s
drawings of ancient sculpture, the
commissioned mural will be installed in the
ceiling area of Gallery I in the Conrad A.
Elvehjem Building. This too has been a project
BOTTOM
long in ROW
the (left-right)
making. Inspired by Dine’s so-called
Glyptotek Drawings (1987–88), which were
shown in Madison in the mid-1990s,
arrangements for the Chazen murals were only
finalized in 2013. Given the immensity of the
mural (two of the panels measure twenty-six
feet in length), Dine had to rent a new studio in
Paris where he usually spends six to seven
months each year. The work will be completed
in February of 2017. The panels will then be
shipped to Madison (by sea, because of their
size) in April and May, and then installed
permanently in June 2017. The subject of the
murals is particularly suitable to this gallery as
it houses our collection of Greco-Roman
antiquities. Although quite different
aesthetically from the work that Ikeda just
completed, the Dine mural will be spectacular.
For this, too, stay tuned.
New York and the Seattle Museum of Art, both
of which have significant holdings of Japanese
art, came specifically to meet the artist and view
his progress. While here, both curators
expressed great enthusiasm for what they saw.
We, too, here at the Chazen are not immune to
Rebirth’s allure and would readily welcome it
back to Madison. After all, it was created here
and contains delightful visual references to
Madison and Wisconsin. Careful examination
of the 130-square-foot drawing rewards the
viewer with images of Bucky Badger, Octopus
Car Wash, a large red W, and the dome of the
State Capitol, among other local references. Will
it return? Stay tuned.
2–7
May 26–August 20, 2017
friends,
Sets: Printed Variations