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Deep Focus – Bob Dylan’s Limited-Edition Series at Castle Fine Art
Bob Dylan's renowned touring exhibition, 'Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum', has just ended at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. The exhibition featured more than 180 of Dylan's paintings, drawings and sculptures, spanning six decades, including his new series, Deep Focus.
Castle Fine Art have announced that on 22nd June, they will be offering collectors the chance to purchase the first limited edition artworks from the Deep Focus series, exclusively from their galleries. Depicting figures and portraits influenced by world cinema, the series showcases Dylan's ever-evolving artistic vision.
The title of the series refers to a cinematic technique that communicates narrative through the foreground, middle and background, rather than focusing on one visual plane over another. Completed in 2021, the series borrows visual techniques from film and photography, and illustrates how cropping and framing can alter the viewer's perception of any scene.
"All these images come from films. They try to highlight the different predicaments that people find themselves in,"Dylan explains."Whether it's James Cagney or Margaret Rutherford, the dreams and schemes are the same - life as it's coming at you in all its forms and shapes."
Dylan's cinematic references result in evocative, often mysterious, compositions suspended between life and theatre, while conjuring a distinctly tangible pictorial experience. Although these new works prominently depict figures and portraits, much of the iconography that was featured in Dylan's earlier series The Beaten Path is still recognisable - diners, motels, roadsides and city streets.
Images show a selection of original artworks from Bob Dylan's Deep Focus collection displayed at the MAXXI Museum in Rome as part of his touring retrospective.
Image credit: © Clara Melchiorre
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