In Perspective 2 | Episode One
Literature Turned to a Painting
DEAN RADER
&
COLE SWENSEN

Cy Twombly, Orpheus, 1979
[Bassano in Teverina]
76 3/4 x 58 9/16 in.
© Cy Twombly Foundation
In Perspective comes back with a special episode dedicated to poetry and its deep connection with Cy Twombly and his works. Through the conversation between the poets Cole Swensen and Dean Rader as well as the reading of their poetic works dedicated to the artist, we will be accompanied to an in-between space, where poetry becomes paint and paint becomes poetry, where poem and handwriting are not definitive but living things, where the artist’s paintings look landscapes established by shades of greens “deep and full of life” and the “white” of his sculptures is a constant opening, “an enactment of a borderlessness.”
The audio conversation can be listened both on the Foundation’s Podbean channel and website, visiting the Episode One of In Perspective 2, beginning on October 30th, 2025. A transcription of the conversation will be also available.
The second season of In Perspective will be the starting point of Interludes, further insights which focus on selected works of some of the contributors to the online section. As musical interludes, each work especially dedicated to Cy Twombly will be connected to a music piece.


