Jim Dine - Crommelynck Gate
The artist Jim Dine collaborated with our studio to assemble a new version of his sculpture, Crommelynck Gate. Jim partnered with the metalworking team at Gate 44 to assemble tools and metal objects to create the sculpture. Subsequently, the artwork was transported to Switzerland and cast at the Kunstgiesserie foundry in St. Gallen.
Jim Dine (b.1935) is an American artist whose career extends over sixty years. Since the 1950s, Dine’s expansive multimedia practice has spanned painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, poetry, and performance. Dine was a pioneering member of the Happenings movement alongside artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, staging experimental live performances throughout mid-century New York City. His practice later crossed into art movements including Neo-Dada, Pop, and Neo-Expressionism. Throughout his varied oeuvre, Dine embraced idiosyncratic expressions of autobiographical details; personal totems, such as hearts and robes, became frequent motifs. Dine has spent the last 60 years traveling the world, sharing his time between various foundries, studios and print workshops, from Göttingen, Germany to New York and Walla-Walla in the U.S. to Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Dine’s work is featured in over 70 public collections across the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MoMa, Guggenheim, Albertina Museum in Vienna, Folkwang Museum in Essen, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The British Museum and Tate Britain in London.
Metal working assistance : Lorenzo Cerchierini and his team - Photography: Erica Monzali