Cy Twombly arrives in Venice with a great exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro: a colourful and deep testimony of a work that is regenerated every time it appears.
From May 6th 2015 Ca’ Pesaro presents a special retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest masters of contemporary art, Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928 – Rome, 2011) who returns to Venice – where he attended the Biennale five times from 1964 and the last one was in 2001 when he won the Golden Lion – with an important monographic exhibition curated by Julie Sylvester and Philip Larratt-Smith.
This exhibition is a testimony of a work that is regenerated every time it appears and of an artist who never ceases to amaze “for the extraordinary visual intelligence and acute sensitivity to all forms of physical, natural and artistic beauty” as Philip Larratt-Smith has written in the catalogue.
The work of CY Twombly, who passed away in 2011, is focused on the universal themes of love, art, beauty and death, but the particularity of his artistic vision and his perspective of the world offers an extraordinarily original interpretation to these themes.
Like many of his generation, Twombly reacted against the dominant trend in painting of Abstract Expressionism, but unlike others, who opted for a Pop or Neo-Dadaist vision, he made a synthesis between the heritage and established techniques of gestural abstraction and the tradition of European painting. Many are the themes of his artistic research and they are explored in the majestic spaces of Ca’ Pesaro.
The exhibition proposes an itinerary full of references that take the visitor from the early wall paintings on wood dated 1951 to a selection of the artist’s last works created in 2011 when the artist was at the physical limit of his old age. We are talking about eight paintings of gestural baroque circles in yellow, red and orange on a bright green background (half margarita, half key lime). These were the last paintings of the artist, created a few weeks before the death.
Admission
From May 6th to September 13th 2015
Admission accorded to the times and tickets of the museum
Opening times
10am – 6pm (ticket office: 10am – 5pm)
Closed on Monday
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