Cy Twombly – Sculptures

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Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130 
Until February 2016

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"Taking cues from the Dada movement and from the work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly created poetic objects whose serene white surfaces and allusive forms seem to recall remote worlds of myth and the ancient past. After reaching an indisputable maturity in his early sculpture, created from 1946 to 1959, Twombly returned to working in three dimensions in the mid-1970s and continued to cast new works up until his passing in 2011. When asked shortly before his death whether any of his sculptures might be considered companions to his masterful series of ten paintings Fifty Days at Iliam of 1978 (installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989), the artist responded by choosing a selection of extraordinary bronzes, five of which are on view in this installation.”

—Philadelphia Museum of Art

Vintage Cy Twombly Exhibition Posters

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—01. Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, 1980.
—02. Mumok, Vienna, 2009.

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When it comes to artwork at home, I am often drawn to event and exhibition posters. These two were created for different Cy Twombly shows in Europe and form part of a great selection of printed items offered by Tokyo-based interiors store, Building.

—Available at Building

Cy Twombly: A Survey of Photographs 1954 - 2011

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—01-03. St Barth's, 2011.

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An exhibition featuring a retrospective of photographic works from the artist Cy Twombly opens this month at the London branch of the Gagosian Gallery. The photos, which span from the 1950s until as recently as last year, are part of a larger exhibit that include some of Twombly's last paintings. The show opened in Los Angeles earlier this year, before traveling to Hong Kong and will conclude it's tour in New York.

—At the Gagosian Gallery until September 29th, 2012