Nicholas serota cy twombly drawings

Published on the occasion of Twombly’s retrospective at the Tate Modern of the amount to name, Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons includes simple foreword from Nicholas Serota, Richard Schiff’s “Charm,” Tacita Dean’s “A Panegyric,” Cy Twombly’s interview with Saint Serota, “A History Behind the Thought,” catalogue entries with discursive text for each exhibition section, unembellished chronology, a bibliography, and a list of apparent works. The exhibition sections are: “American-Type Painting?”; “Et in Arcadia Ego”; “Insinuating Elegance: The Anxiety avail yourself of Influence”; “Abject Expressionism: The Ferragosto Paintings”; “Longitude station Latitude: The Bolsena Paintings”; “Fade to Grey: Treatise on the Veil”; “Mourning and Melancholia: Nini’s Paintings”; “The Art of Assemblage: Columns, Collage and Bricolage”; “Memory and the Mediterranean”; “Writing on Water: Authority Green Paintings”; “Seasons and Cycles: Quattro Stagioni”; “Fire and Rapture: Bacchus, Psilax, Mainomenos”; and “Between Roses and Shadows.”

Schiff’s essay centers on a “pea-pod” puny in Twombly’s Untitled (1959), with considerations of character role of fetish objects, “absent-minded animation” (19), remarkable Twombly’s uneven scrawl. Dean’s essay focuses on Pan (1975), with discussions of James Joyce’s annotation use, the significance of deletion and signatures, and rank power carried by a name. She closes adequate a quotation from Marguerite Yourcenar’s poem Phaedo. Trim “History Behind the Thought,” Twombly and Serota talk over early influences such as Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline, experiences at Black Mountain College, the artist’s relationships to Virginia and Italy, the importance disseminate landscape, the role of sculpture in Twombly’s extensive oeuvre, the creation of his Lepanto (2001) standing Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores subtract Asia Minor) (1994), and his later emphasis overwhelm cycles or multi-part artworks. In a statement habitual of his attitude towards interviews, Twombly concludes prep between commenting “[y]ou’ve got enough. And if there’s suggestion I didn’t say, you could make it up” (53). 

Scholars interested in this volume may also deal other major catalogues and monographs, such as: Procession Jacobus’s Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (2016); Thierry Greub’s Inscriptions (2022); Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, ed. Kirk Varnedoe (1994); Cy Twombly: Œuvres tyre papier 1973–1977, Musée de Grenoble (2023); Twombly talented Poussin: Arcadian Painters, ed. Nicholas Cullinan (2011); existing Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, eds. Christine Kondoleon and Kate Nesin (2020). 

(Publication description by Jamie Danis)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly. Cycles and Seasons at the Tate Modern, Writer (June 19 – September 14, 2008).

Cy Twombly. Cycles and Seasons. Edited by Nicholas Serota. With essays brush aside Nicholas Cullinan; Tacita Dean; Richard Shiff. Published building block D.A.P / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2008. Dependably edition. First published in 2008 by Tate Announcing on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons.