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october 12, 2021 - Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian to Present Exhibitions of Cy Twombly Photographs in Rome and Paris
ROME and PARIS, October 12, 2021—Gagosian is pleased to announce two presentations of photographs by Cy Twombly, in Rome and Paris. They will feature images made over a sixty-year period across locations in the United States, Italy, and the Caribbean that were central to the artist's life and work. Souvenirs of Time, at Gagosian Rome from October 30 to November 13, 2021, is a survey of the photographs that Twombly took throughout his career of his studios and interiors, and of classical sculptures. Gagosian will show a grouping of his fruit, flower, and landscape photographs at Paris Photo 2021, on view at the Grand Palais Éphémère from November 11 to 14, 2021.
Twombly was active as a photographer from his days at a student at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the early 1950s through his death in 2011. He used photography to capture studies of his daily life and motifs that held his interest. His images display an affinity with the Pictorialism of such figures as Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz in their emphasis on soft focus, fine detail, and deliberate composition.
Initially using black-and-white film, Twombly later captured vivid hues with a Polaroid camera, enlarging selected images through a special color dry-print process.
In Rome, Souvenirs of Time brings together shots that Twombly took of his studio interiors from the 1950s through the 2000s. These range from his 1950s studio on New York's Fulton Street to his ateliers in Rome, Bassano in Teverina, and Gaeta in Italy, and in Lexington, Virginia. These images show his paintings and sculpture in situ and in varying states of completion, offering insight into his working process. Additional photographs depict domestic interiors and details of classical sculptures, presenting views of the spaces and forms that inspired him. Sigh, Sigh, Sigh, a presentation of work by Tacita Dean that includes a series of her own photographs and film of Twombly's studios in Gaeta and Lexington will be on view concurrently at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio | La Fondazione, one floor below the gallery.
At Paris Photo, Gagosian's presentation highlights another aspect of Twombly's photographic oeuvre with an ensemble of fruit and flower still lifes and landscapes.
These shots are permeated with images of organic growth, depicting heirloom lemons cultivated in Gaeta, the petals of tulips and roses, and verdant landscapes captured near the artist's Lexington birthplace. The evocation of vision and memory and the joyful embrace of life embodied by these photographs extend to the pictures that Twombly took in 2011 of crosses and flowers in a cemetery on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy—his final series of photographs.
The Spring 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly features Jonathan Galassi's poem "After Images," which was inspired by Twombly's photographs.
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