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The exhibition highlights how words, visual arts and music are in cor- respondence for Dylan in a real deep connection. Motels, restaurants, long highways converse with abandoned amusement parks and rub shoulders with revisited “Rolling Stones” and “Playboy” magazines.
New Orleans, cradle of Jazz, is at the heart of Dylan’s inspiration with scenes of everyday life in an intimate version.
For the occasion, the national public collection of the MAXXI is enriched with a work by Dylan. This work was created around the famous 1965 song «Subterranean Homesick Blues», which features the first and perhaps the most famous music video in history. In it, Dylan drops to the beat of the music a series of sheets of paper with the lyrics to the song that were written the pre- vious night by a group of friends.
Bob Dylan said: “It’s gratifying to hear that my visual works are going to be exhibited at MAXXI in Rome, a truly awesome museum in one of the most beautiful and inspiring cities in the world. This exhibition aims to provide perspectives that examine the human condition and explore the mysteries of life that persist to puzzle us. It’s very different from my music, of course, but just as determined in its intent.
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