Cy Twombly
An Exhibition of Photography
On View at Gagosian, Athens
Cy Twombly
Gagosian Gallery, Athens
May 25 – July 29, 2017
Artwork © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Silia Psychi
From the press release
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
—Cy Twombly
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of Cy Twombly’s photography, to coincide with Divine Dialogues at the Museum of Cycladic Art. Curated by Nikolaos Stampolidis, from the Museum of Cycladic Art, and Jonas Storsve, curator of the recent Twombly retrospective at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Divine Dialoguesshows Twombly’s work alongside classical antiquities.
The gallery exhibition comprises more than twenty photographs of natural subjects—including tulips, strawberries, cabbages, and lemons—taken in Rome and Gaeta, Italy, between 1985 and 2008, as well as a bronze sculpture. From his days as a student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina during the early 1950s until his death in 2011 at the age of 83, Twombly captured his daily life in photographs. He recorded the verdant landscapes of Virginia and the coasts of Italy, close-up details of ancient buildings and sculptures, studio interiors, and still lifes of objects and flowers.
Beginning in the early 1990s, Twombly used specialized copiers to enlarge his Polaroid images on matte paper, resulting in subtle distortions that approximate the timeless qualities of his paintings and sculptures with their historical and literary allusions. Recalling the Pictorialism of photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, the expressive nature of Twombly’s prints transcends the mechanical aspects of the medium.
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Gagosian Gallery, Athens
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