Dimick exhibit at Eugene Binder features 457 pages of paintings
The premiere of artist Lucas Dimick’s 2666 Project will take place June 12-20 in Marfa at Eugene Binder located at 218 Highland Street. The exhibition of 457 individual paintings made directly on the pages of a book will open with a public reception with the artist on Friday, June 12, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be on view through Saturday, June 20.
“The 2666 Project is a series of paintings made directly onto the pages of a physical paperback copy of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666,” Dimick says. “The book, unfinished at the time of the author’s death, is sprawling, fragmented, and haunting. It moves through overlapping narratives of violence, obsession, academia, and art that, for me, left behind a lingering sense of unease about global economic systems and their effect on people pushed to the margins of a globalized world.”
Dimick is an award-winning independent animator whose work has been presented at the Blanton Museum of Art, Museum of Human Achievement, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and the Marfa Film Festival. He lives in Austin.
“I have painted over every odd-numbered page, for a total of 457 pages/paintings,” Dimnick says. “My intention was not to create illustrations that directly match the narrative, but to make work based on the impressions and emotional imprint the book left me with. By painting on every odd-numbered page of the book, transforming the physical copy of the book into a continuous sequence and complete visual object.”
“The goal isn’t to explain or interpret 2666, but to remain with the feeling it left behind,” Dimick adds. “My intent is to create a standalone work layered onto a preexisting one—a transformation of a mass-produced object into something that stands on its own.”
A talk with the artist will air on Marfa Public Radio during the Marfa Mystery Hour program on Wednesday, June 17, at 8 p.m. A closing reception for the show will take place on Saturday, June 20, from 5-7 p.m.
More information and images of the work can be found at: www.lwdimick.com/2666-project