US pop artist Jim Dine has taken a life-long fascination with the character of Pinocchio and translated it into a graphical representation of the original novel by Carlo Collodi in Martine Sitbon’s A#5. Dine has an illustrious history in the US art scene, having orchestrated many significant ‘happenings’ in the 60′s that spurned forward the new generations of Pop artists, designers and musicians. Offering his realist, silent theatre approach with his somewhat organic aesthetic, Dine has filled the pages of Collodi’s original script in with print slogans and cartoon-like painted expressionist characters, commenting rather violently on the darker values of the story of Pinocchio.

“in the end it is his [pinocchio's] great heart that holds me. I have carried him on my back like landscape since I was six years old. ”

“the idea of a talking stick becoming a boy [is] like a metaphor for art, and it’s the ultimate alchemical transformation.”

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