“Unlike artists who focus on a single medium, Jim, since his first works made while still at high school, has – over the course of seven decades – explored and respectfully disrespected materials and processes. He takes this approch to a new intensity in his exhibition Dog on the Forge at the Palazzo Rocca, a collateral Event at La Bienna di Venezia. Here Jim re-invents some of his most beloved motifs, includings pinocchios, antique sculpture, hearts and tools, all in eclectic combinations of media such as painted bronze and collage on canvas.”
Gerhard Steidl