until Sunday October 09 2016
Albertina
T : +43 (0)1 534 83-0
Albertinaplatz 1
1010 Wien
Austria
From the artist’s generous donation to the Albertina, a representative selection of 100 fascinating self-portraits is to be shown that presents Dine in demeanours both unusual and self-critical.
The self-portraits, which Dine began painting in the 1950s, serve to catalyse an independent, intense, and surprising dialogue with the artist and his output. And Dine’s diverse experiments with a wide range of techniques and materials address themes including youth and old age, intimacy and extroversion, and seriality and creativity on paper-enabling these self-portraits to open up new insights into a supposedly familiar oeuvre.