Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in a small conservative town called Hibbing, in Minnesota. In 1960, life took him to New York, where he went from performing songs in Greenwich Village dive bars to becoming, well, Bob Dylan. Few people know that between gigs he also delved into the fine arts, experimenting with oil painting, acrylics, watercolors, ink drawings, pastels, and charcoal, even dipping a toe into a sculptural practice. In the first European retrospective dedicated to Dylan’s visual oeuvre, another side of this prolific artist emerges. —Elena Clavarino