“Poet singing – the flowering sheets” is the title of a spatial artwork by the American conceptual artist Jim Dine. His work consists of large oak sculptures, wall-sized texts and a sound installation.
The housing for Jim Dine’s art is intended to be as simple and yet touching, as his work itself. A simple wooden structure is used to create an area of 40 square metres and a room height of up to 4.6 metres, so that the delicate coal drawings and the sculptures can be shown to their best advantage. The grey glazed, wooden facade, with the subtle shadows of the slatted cladding, bring out the independent appearance of the small building in the art district.

Building project: House of Words – Jim Dine: a site-specific installation
Client: Gerhard Steidl
Completion: 2022
Photographer: Simone Bossi, Guilherme Moreira | Steidl Verlag