Cy Twombly Photographs 19512007 Author:Laszlo Glozer, Cy Twombly Ever since his student days, Cy Twombly has — concerned himself with photography, but only in — recent years he has turned it into a unique artistic — concept and an aesthetic sensation. Twombly s — photographic pieces are documents of a fascinatingly — enigmatic and personal poetry. His studios in — Lexington and Gaeta, details of his own sculptures
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and collected sculptural items, landscape motifs, fruits
and flowers appear in a mysteriously transformed
manner on these delicate sheets. Printed in
matte colors on matte paper using a dry-print
process that imbues them with velvet and almost
grainy hue, the images are vaguely reminiscent of
the pictorialist tradition in fin de siècle photography.
In their minimalist way, however, generating
aesthetic visions by the simplest of means, they are
utterly contemporary.
Photographs 1980 2007 presents Twombly s photographic