Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly)
May 25 – July 5, 2024
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome

From the press release

Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly) is a multidisciplinary program that consists of five evenings of live concerts, dance, poetry, talks, a listening station dedicated to Morton Feldman and an exhibition of works by musician and visual artist Devendra Banhart, in collaboration with Galleria Mazzoli, Modena.

Un/veiled is the unprecedented result of an extensive research conducted over the past four years by the Cy Twombly Foundation at its Rome and Gaeta offices at the behest of Nicola Del Roscio, aimed at collecting, documenting and preserving at its archives the musical, choreographic and poetic compositions of artists who have been inspired by or have attempted to build an intimate dialogue with the works of Cy Twombly.  

If in the first edition of Un/veiled (2022) the references to Cy Twombly's works were obvious and declared by the artists involved in their own productions, the program conceived for this second episode intends to push the spectator to explore the underlying links between the great artist and the various proposals. This is done through listening to Triadic Memories (1981), a musical composition for solo piano by Morton Feldman, an American post-avant-garde composer; in the vision of Devendra Banhart's ink and pencil drawings; in the perception of the energy released by the jazz improvisations of Myra Melford's Splash Trio, along the movements, gestures and "instant compositions" of Michèle Murray with her company PLAY, as well as in the writing of Dean Rader and Carlos Peris or the notes of Eraldo Bernocchi and Rita Marcotulli paying homage to Cy Twombly and the musician Harold Budd at the same time.

Although they belong to different generations and expressive universes, the artists involved in the second edition of the project are united by their inspiration: Cy Twombly profoundly influenced their creative process, leading them to offer an unprecedented reinterpretation of the work of the great American artist.

Morton Feldman's composition Triadic Memories (1981) becomes the pivot around which the theme of the second edition revolves. In 1977, the composer met Cy Twombly in Rome, where he had the opportunity to see a series of paintings in process, which he would find concluded the following year in New York. It had to be the 1978 10-part cycle Fifty Days at Iliam, inspired by Homer's Iliad and now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
During a lecture, the composer recounts that he was particularly struck by the way Cy Twombly had managed to modulate color tones, achieving almost imperceptible shading and variation between paintings. In 1981 Feldman recovered that suggestion and transposed it into sound in the composition Triadic Memories, going so far as to translate chromatic modulation into tonal modulation through the use of the piano sustaining pedal, which is left suspended throughout the performance of the 90-minute piece. Listening to Feldman's composition is an essential introduction for the audience from which to immerse themselves in the works and creative process of the other invited artists.

The second edition of Un/veiled is accompanied by a dedicated publication detailing the project and the program of events. The catalogue features a special booklet, entirely dedicated to Devendra Banhart's exhibition, which includes an interview with the artist about his work and Cy Twombly's influence on his research.

For further details:

Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly)

THE UN/VEILED CALENDAR 2024

Exhibition

Devendra Banhart. Total Pink Cosmos in Square White Cloud

Opening: May 24, 2024, 6-8 pm

Exhibition dates: 25 May - 5 July 2024

May 25, 2024, 9.00 pm

Live Concert Devendra Banhart

May 30, 2024, 9.00 pm

Live Concert MYRA MELFORD´S SPLASH TRIO with Michael Formanek & Ches Smith

June 7, 2024, 6.30 pm

Dean Rader & Carlos Peris in conversation about the publications:

Dean Rader, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly (2023);

Carlos Peris, From State of Mind to the Tangible. The Photographic Cosmos of Cy Twombly (2022)

June 22, 2024, 9.00 pm

Dance PLAY/Michèle Murray, Wilder Shores (2020)

June 29, 2024, 9.00 pm

Live concert Eraldo Bernocchi & Rita Marcotulli

In the coming months, on the In Perspective section of our website, there will be further information and more contents available about the artists involved in the project Un/veiled .

Following our forthcoming announcements, the videos of their performances, which took place at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, will be available to watch for 48 hours.

For further information:
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
fondazionenicoladelroscio.it