Souvenirs of Time gathered a body of photographs that Cy Twombly made over the course of some six decades, from his student years at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s until shortly before his death in 2011. Mounted at Gagosian in Rome, the exhibition surveyed a private, sustained photographic practice that ran parallel to Twombly’s work in painting and sculpture, concentrating on three recurring subjects: studio interiors, domestic spaces, and classical sculpture.

The photographs traced the locations that shaped Twombly’s daily life and imagination. Studios were documented from the 1950s onward — the Fulton Street workspace in New York, and the ateliers in Rome, Bassano in Teverina, Gaeta, and Lexington, Virginia — each shown with paintings and sculptures in varying states of completion, offering a quiet record of his working process. Alongside these were images of domestic interiors and details of classical statuary, the same antique forms that long inflected his painted work. Together the pictures registered not as documentation but as a sustained form of looking, attentive to the rooms and objects that kept company with the work.

Concurrent with the exhibition, Sigh, Sigh, Sigh, a presentation of photographs and film by Tacita Dean documenting Twombly’s studios at Gaeta and Lexington, was on view at the nearby Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio.

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