Interludes
DEAN RADER |
ALVA NOTO
As musical interludes, each work especially dedicated to Cy Twombly will be connected to a music piece.

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970
[Rome]
Oil based house paint, wax crayon, lead pencil on canvas
61 1/2 x 75 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, The Bernhill Fund Gift
© Cy Twombly Foundation
This Interlude features Dean Rader's poem "Meditation on Instruction", inspired by Cy Twombly's painting Untitled, 1970, in conversation with Alva Noto's Xerrox Topia from the album Xerrox Vol.5 (Noton, 2024).
N-062. Alva Noto. Xerrox Vol. 5 (Noton, 2024)
For an immersive experience we recommend to read the poem while listening the music piece.


Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly by Dean Rader. Published by Copper Canyon Press, 2023.
Learn more about the Episode One from the second season of In Perspective listening the audio conversation between the poets Cole Swensen and Dean Rader, Literature Turned to a Painting.
We are grateful to Dean Rader, Carsten Nicolai and Studio Carsten Nicolai for their precious collaboration.