See all Museum Exhibitions for Cy Twombly. About To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link. CyTwombly Facebook Twitter E-mail. Website cytwombly. Previous Slide Next Slide. Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies Bobbie Sheng explores the symbiotic relationship between the poet and visual artists of his time and tracks the enduring influence of his poetry on artists working today.
In Conversation Sally Mann and Jenny Saville The two artists discuss being drawn to difficult subjects, the effects of motherhood on their practice, embracing chance, and their shared adoration of Cy Twombly. Cy Twombly: In Beauty it is finished Mark Francis, director of the exhibition Cy Twombly: In Beauty it is finished, Drawings — , describes the impetus for this expansive presentation, the source for its title, and details the stories of some of the works on view.
Katharina Grosse reflects on the work of Cy Twombly. Museum Exhibitions. Photo: Alessandro Zambianchi. Gagosian Gallery trains its lens on photography by Charles Desmarais.
Poems Without Words by Raphael Rubinstein. San Francisco - "Plane. L'opera d'arte prima dell'opera d'arte. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Cy Twombly. Coronation of Sesostris Part V , Private Collection. Now at Gagosian uptown. Photo: Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Gagosian. The line is reminiscent of handwriting, and evokes the idea of writing in an abstract manner. He was interested in graffiti, and often incorporated words, text and poetry into his paintings.
The artist continued to deal with historic themes, such as Coronation of Sesostris , dedicated to the Ancient Egyptian King, and Lepanto , a cycle of paintings referencing the Lepanto Battle of Another source of inspiration was nature, as is evident in the flower series of the s: the Peony Blossom Paintings and The Roses Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr.
He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors.
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of most of the museums of modern art around the world, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London and the New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Many of his later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. In a retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe described Twombly's work as "influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well. Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia, on April 25, Twombly's father, also nicknamed "Cy", pitched for the Chicago White Sox.
At age 12, Twombly began to take private art lessons with the Catalan modern master Pierre Daura. On a tuition scholarship from to , he studied at the Art Students League of New York , where he met Robert Rauschenberg with whom he had a relationship. The poet and rector of the College Charles Olson had a great influence on him. Arranged by Motherwell, Twombly's first solo exhibition was organized by the Samuel M.
Kootz Gallery in New York in Twombly travels to Instanbul for Christmas. He spends the spring in Gaeta working on drawings. Two series of drawings were shown with the drawings and a selection of sculptures in Zurich at the Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG that summer. Twombly travels in March to Zurich, Paris and Madrid. In both places, he works on sculpture in spring and autumn.
He spends December in Sorrento. He starts to work in July in Bassano on the two sets of the Quattro Stagioni. He works on sculptures in Gaeta in the fall. Spends the beginning of the year on Jupiter Island, Florida, where he works on sixteen sculptures. He returns for the summer to Gaeta to complete a three-panel painting using the motif of sea and boats, which will become a recurrent subject for his work.
In the spring, nostalgic for his hometown of Lexington, he takes a house in Lexington, where he will spend the spring and the fall regularly over the next years. He works during the summer in Gaeta finishing Autunno and Inverno of the first set of the Quattro Stagioni.
He receives an honorary doctoral degree from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, in the fall. The artist resides in Lexington in the winter and in Gaeta in the spring and summer where he completes the first set of Quattro Stagioni and some sculptures.
On returning to Lexington in the fall, he rents an empty warehouse where he finishes the large painting he had begun in Rome twenty-two years earlier: Untitled Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor.
Twombly works on and completes the second version of the Quattro Stagioni in Gaeta. Twombly travels to Houston in February for the opening of the second venue of the Museum of Modern Art retrospective and for the inauguration of the Cy Twombly Gallery, a museum founded by the Menil family, sponsored by Philippa and Heiner Friedrich and curated by Paul Winkler.
Renzo Piano designs the museum based on plans made together with the artist. The museum is a permanent installation of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from to the present.
At the same time, a show of photographs by Twombly and a drawing show are held at two different galleries in Houston. Twombly spends the spring in Lexington and the summer in Gaeta, where he gives the last touch to the second version of the set Quattro Stagioni without changing the date of execution. Twombly travels to Berlin in August for the last venue of his retrospective, visits St. Petersburg, and then returns to Italy. In the summer in Gaeta, he works on sculptures and three sets of monoprints, portraying for the first time, motifs influenced by the Battle of Lepanto, which are shown in December in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
He spends the winter in Lexington and on St. A one-person exhibition opens at Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne. In May he exhibits eight sculptures at the American Academy in Rome. He travels in Iran and spends some time staying in Isfahan in May.
It is a new interpretation of J. Twombly works on sculptures in Bassano in Teverina and Gaeta in August, and he spends the autumn months and winter in Lexington. December in St.
The ancient legendary Egyptian king, as well as the myth of the sun god Ra, inspires Coronation of Sesostris. Spends winter months in the Caribbean. Spring in Lexington where he works in a small studio on sculptures, photographs and the series of Lepanto paintings, which are presented at the 49th Venice Biennale where he is awarded the Golden Lion. For lack of space, he works on a panel and nails another panel atop of the previously finished one. During the summer and autumn, Twombly works on paintings, sculptures and photography.
He returns to Lexington, where he works mainly on sculptures and photography. In the summer Twombly works on paintings and sculptures. The first comprehensive catalogue of photographic work, Cy Twombly Photographs edited by Nicola Del Roscio is published in the fall.
He spends part of the winter in St. Travels in July to St. Twombly spends most of the summer and autumn in Gaeta working on sculptures. Spends the winter in the Seychelles. Returns to Gaeta. Works on ten paintings that are later shown in London on occasion of the opening of the new Gagosian Gallery in May. Fall in Lexington, working on photography. During spring, an archive of the drawings is established by Nicola Del Roscio in Rome.
He stays in Lexington, working on sculptures for the rest of the year. Spring months are spent in Gaeta where he works mainly on sculptures. In April an exhibition of recent sculptures made in Lexington in previous years is shown at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
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