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Indepth Arts News:
"CY TWOMBLY: The Sculpture"
2000-09-18 until 2000-11-26
Menil Collection
Houston, TX,
USA
CY TWOMBLY: The Sculpture presents a
comprehensive selection of 65 of the artist’s
three-dimensional works, including many sculptures
never before publicly shown. Famous for his gestural
paintings and prolific drawings, Twombly also
created—working in plaster and bronze with found
objects—a significant body of sculpture of poetic
intensity. Twombly's interest in sculpture began early in
his career.
This exhibition will feature a group of Twombly’s
earliest sculptures, from the 1940s and 50s, assemblages
made of modest everyday objects and covered with
white paint (a material the artist calls my marble,
referring to the medium of classical sculpture). The
coating of white, Katharina Schmidt notes,
dematerializes the works, lending an aura of
timelessness. Inscribed and scrawled upon their
surfaces are verses from great poets—Archilochos,
Rumi, Rilke, Kavafy. Twombly's sculptures continue to
bear these traces of human emotion (and) human life
through time, notes Schmidt, as precious and fleeting
as the sculptures themselves.
The exhibition also includes work from the period
beginning in 1976, when new forms emerged, more
purely abstract than the earlier, totemic pieces, reflecting
such longtime influences as Mediterranean landscape
and antiquities. All of Twombly’s sculpture, the art critic
David Sylvester notes, transmits delight—delight in
things and in how light delights in things and things in
light.
The exhibition is curated by Katharina Schmidt, director
of the Kunstmuseum Basel, and Paul Winkler, former
director of The Menil Collection.
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