Publication: Gagosian
Measurements: 9.5 × 12.25 inches
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
This publication accompanies Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures, held at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York—the first exhibition in the United States dedicated solely to this vital aspect of Twombly’s artistic practice.
Twombly’s sculptural works often merge found materials with plaster or clay, unified under a coat of white paint. Some of these pieces were later cast in bronze, a transformation the artist described as a way to “abstract the forms from the material.” The ten sculptures featured in this exhibition are all bronzes, treated with a soft white patina that echoes the painted surfaces of the originals. As art critic David Sylvester observes in his essay, these works evoke artifacts unearthed from antiquity. “They bear the marks of time—of erosion, of survival,” he notes. “They seem less like relics of a single life and more like fragments of an entire civilization.”
The book presents the exhibited sculptures in striking black-and-white photographs by Nicola Del Roscio and includes Sylvester’s full essay, offering insight into the poetic and historical resonance of Twombly’s sculptural language.
Publication: Gagosian
Measurements: 9.5 × 12.25 inches
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
This publication accompanies Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures, held at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York—the first exhibition in the United States dedicated solely to this vital aspect of Twombly’s artistic practice.
Twombly’s sculptural works often merge found materials with plaster or clay, unified under a coat of white paint. Some of these pieces were later cast in bronze, a transformation the artist described as a way to “abstract the forms from the material.” The ten sculptures featured in this exhibition are all bronzes, treated with a soft white patina that echoes the painted surfaces of the originals. As art critic David Sylvester observes in his essay, these works evoke artifacts unearthed from antiquity. “They bear the marks of time—of erosion, of survival,” he notes. “They seem less like relics of a single life and more like fragments of an entire civilization.”
The book presents the exhibited sculptures in striking black-and-white photographs by Nicola Del Roscio and includes Sylvester’s full essay, offering insight into the poetic and historical resonance of Twombly’s sculptural language.
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