 |  | Untitled, 2001
Acrylic, wax crayon, pencil and collage
48 3/4 x 35 in. (124 x 89 cm)
Collection of the artist
© Cy Twombly. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. | |
The Art Institute of Chicago's Cy Twombly exhibition will be a highlight of the opening of the Museum's new Modern Wing, as it will be the first exhibition mounted in the new temporary exhibition space.
Cy Twombly's distinctive canvases merge drawing, painting, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression. Twombly’s paintings, florid evocations offering homage to art, myth, and allegory are a form of improvisational writing. More performative than illustrative, Twombly's inimitable visual language of scribbles, scratches, and scrawls are employed to both suggestive and sublime effects. The more than 30 works in this exhibition speak to the artist's abiding concern with the natural world specifically landscape and seascape. Included in the exhibition are works in a full range of media made between 2000 and 2007.
UBS is the exclusive Corporate Sponsor of Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007.
www.artinstituteofchicago.org
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