Jim Dine

Templon is proud to present the great American artist Jim Dine, now 87, for the first time in its new Chelsea space.

With the exhibition Three Ships, Jim Dine signs a spectacular return to the city of his beginnings. A native of Ohio, Jim Dine moved to New York in 1958. Since his first happenings in the 60’s and his first success as part of the Pop Art generation, Jim Dine has always maintained a close relationship with the city, where he has long kept a studio. Now working between Paris, Walla Walla and Göttingen in Germany, he has chosen for this come back to unveil some of its most innovative new works.

Three Ships brings together the production of the past three years: monumental bronze sculptures, rows of intimate self-portraits and five massive abstract paintings on wood.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Steidl publishes a 89 pages fully illustrated catalogue. Designed by the artist, it provides extensive documentation on Jim Dine’s sculptural process, as well as texts by Anne-Claudie Coric, Jim Dine and Sam Sackeroff.

Jim Dine’s work features in over 70 public collections across the world, including at the MoMA, Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Collection in London. In 2018, the Centre Pompidou organized a major retrospective of his work which then travelled to the Centre Pompidou Malaga then the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow. Another major retrospective was held in Rome by the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in 2020. In 2021, he inaugurated the Fondation GGL in Montpellier with his largest commissioned work in France: a ceramic ceiling created especially for the 17th-century manor house that is home to the foundation in collaboration with the Manufacture de Sèvres. In the spring 2023, Dine will inaugurate The Stardust House in Göttingen, Germany, a Pavillon dedicated to the sculpture, Seeing Thru the Stardust, the Heat on the Lawn. This exhibition will be followed in June by the exhibition "Storm of Memory" at the Kunsthaus Gottingen, of new sculptures, prints and books. In the fall, Dine will participate in the exhibition, "Paravents" at the Prada Foundation. Later in the fall, Dine will inaugurate an exhibition of portrait drawings donated to Bowdoin College, Maine, USA.