Cy Twombly
dal 16/4/2004 al 13/6/2004
Segnalato da
16/4/2004
Cy Twombly
Serpentine Gallery, London
Fifty Years of Works on Paper. Twombly's work defies easy categorisation. Subverting traditional distinctions between painting and drawing, brush and pencil-work, written words and images, he has made a highly individual contribution to the history of twentieth-century art.
Fifty Years of Works on Paper
Cy Twombly (b. 1928) is considered to be one of the greatest living American artists. Throughout his 50-year career his work has received widespread admiration and international critical praise.
Twombly's work defies easy categorisation. Subverting traditional distinctions between painting and drawing, brush and pencil-work, written words and images, he has made a highly individual contribution to the history of twentieth-century art.
On the occasion of his 75th birthday Twombly has collaborated on an eagerly anticipated survey of his work on paper, complementing retrospectives of his painting at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995 and of his sculpture at the Kunsthalle Basel and The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., in 2000 and 2001.
This exhibition brings together approximately 60 works ranging from his early drawings of 1953 to his new colourful, large paintings on paper, which were executed in Gaeta, Italy, where the artist now works for most of the year. Forming part of Twombly's personal archive, most of these works have never been exhibited or published before.
The Serpentine exhibition is the first major presentation of his work in a London public gallery for over 15 years and offers a unique opportunity to experience one of the outstanding artistic visions of our time.
Cy Twombly has been curated by Julie Sylvester, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. It opened at The State Hermitage Museum and toured to the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, before its presentation at the Serpentine Gallery.
This exhibition is kindly supported by
With additional generous support from the
Embassy of the United States of America
Image:
Cy Twombly
HRIH (detail), 1982
Oil stick, pencil,
colour pencil
100 x 70cm
Photo courtesy of
Gagosian Gallery
© 2004 Cy Twombly
Exhibition Catalogue
Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
A 144-page catalogue including 84 full-colour plates documenting 50 years of Cy Twombly's work on paper will be available to accompany the exhibition. Edited by Julie Sylvester, curator of the exhibition, the publication also includes an essay by historian and broadcaster Simon Schama. The cover was designed by the artist.
The English paperback edition is published by the Serpentine Gallery and Art Data.
Special exhibition price: £25
Gallery Talks
An introduction to the work of Cy Twombly
Saturdays 3pm
Admission free
17 April Achim Borchardt-Hume, curator
23 April Basil Beattie, artist
1 May Wendy Anderson, artist
8 May Fred Mann, gallery director
15 May Robert Garnett, critic and theorist
22 May Alison Turnball, artist, BSL interpreted
29 May Colin Glen, artist
5 June Sacha Craddock, writer and curator
12 June John Slyce, writer and critic
Special Events
Sweatshop
Tuesday 11 May 3 – 6pm
The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery
Admission free
The Serpentine Sweatshops continue during Cy Twombly. Convened by Lisa Le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz, the Sweatshops are a series of events that work as a factory for ideas and debate. This informal series of discussions invites writers, artists, curators and theorists to explore and develop current research interests. For Cy Twombly, the panel will revisit Roland Barthes' 1979 article on Twombly, Sagesse de l'art (The Wisdom of Art), and consider how this text relates to the work some 30 years later.
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Cy Twombly Conference
Saturday 5 June
11am – 5pm
Goethe Institut, 50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road, London SW7
Tickets: £10, £6 (concessions) from TicketWeb 08700 600100 or the Serpentine Gallery Lobby Desk
Cy Twombly's art embraces a rich philosophical and poetic tradition. In The Optical Unconscious, MIT (1993), Rosalind Krauss writes of the artist's inscription as an agitated ‘graffito', a mark-making process that occupies the painted surface with traces of history, language and mythology.
The perfomative aspect of Twombly's work was observed by Roland Barthes in The Wisdom of Art, 1979. He describes the creation of the artist's paintings and drawings as the staging of an ‘event', informed by place and culture.
In this one-day conference chaired by Jon Bird, invited speakers will explore trace and reference in the art of Cy Twombly. The conference will also discuss the artist's relation to both past and contemporary artists and the problems and possibilities his work poses for the language of art criticism.
Speakers
Jon Bird: Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Middlesex University (Chair)
Stephen Bann: Professor of History of Art, Bristol University
Tacita Dean: artist
Alexander GarcÃa Düttmann: Professor of Visual Culture and Philosophy, Goldsmiths College
Katharina Grosse: artist
Information
Sally Tallant Tel 020 7298 1514
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens W2 3XA
London