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26/1/2005

Cy Twombly

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The enigmatically poetic oeuvre of one of America's greatest living artists is celebrated in Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper, at the Whitney Museum of American Art from January 27-May 8, 2005. Using a variety of materials and methods—including paint, crayon, and collage—Twombly continues to create a remarkably cohesive body of work that takes its inspiration from a vast array of sources, embracing everything from ancient mythology, epic poetry and the great battles of classical history to nature. Spanning the last 50 years, the works in the exhibition include examples from Twombly's early years as an artist in the 1950s and his famous chalkboard period of the early 1970s, as well as works made as recently as 2002.

The exhibition was originally organized by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Julie Sylvester, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. Major support for this exhibition was provided by Neil G. Bluhm. Significant funding was provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Additional support was provided by Frances and John Bowes.

“Cy Twombly gives us a never-ending source of magic, fascination, and pure pleasure in his profoundly mysterious works," notes Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director, "This major retrospective, which has been presented at a number of important venues throughout the world, including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, is a celebration of Twombly's 75th birthday, and it is a tremendous privilege to exhibit these eloquent works at the Whitney.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Cy Twombly spends a major portion of his time in Rome, where he has lived, on and off, since 1957. His painting began to develop during the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was the predominant mode in American art. Yet, Twombly maintained an idiosyncratic independence from all defined styles. His graffiti-like strokes evoke the gestural marks of the Abstract Expressionists, while the finished works seem to be the discovered traces of an art that has existed since ancient times.

CATALOGUE
The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue will be revised for the exhibition's New York presentation. In addition to an essay by noted art historian Simon Schama and an introduction by the show's curator Julie Sylvester, it will feature a redesigned cover by the artist, a forward by Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg, and a reprint of Roland Barthes' Non Multa Sed Multum (1976).

ORGANIZATION AND TOUR
The exhibition was organized by Julie Sylvester, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and premiered there in the summer of 2003 during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city of St. Petersburg. It subsequently traveled to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. Following its presentation at the Whitney, the exhibition travels to The Menil Collection, Houston, where it will be on view from May 27 to September 4, 2005.

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