Genre
Combines elements of gestural abstraction, drawing and writing.
Embracing some aspects of Abstract Expressionism, Twombly developed his own poetic style, reliant on literature and classical history. References to greek mythology.
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Born 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. Lives and works in Lexington and Italy.
1948 - 1951 | School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Washington and Lee University in Lexington | 1951 - 1952 | Art Students League, New York; Black Mountain College, Beria, NC, student under Franz Klein, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn | 1952 | Travelled through Europe and Northern Africa with a scholarship of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | 1955 - 1956 | Taught at the Art Department of the Southern Seminary Junior College, Buena Vista, VA | 1959 | Moved to Rome | 1995 | Cy Twombly Gallery at the Menil Collection, Houston, TX | 2001 | Winner of the Leone d'Oro for Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale |
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2004 | London, Serpentine Gallery, Cy Twombly | | Paris, Centre Pompidou, Cy Twombly -
drawing on 50 | 2003 | St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, travelled to Munich, Paris, London, Cy Twombly - Fifty Years of Works on Paper | | New York, Gagosian Gallery Madison,
Cy Twombly | 2002 | Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne | 2001 | Los Angeles, County Museum of Art | 2000 | Hannover, Sprengel Museum | | Basel, Kunstmuseum, travelled to Houston, Menil Collection; Washington, National Gallery, Cy Twombly, The Sculpture | 1998 | Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery | 1997 | Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve | | Brussels, Xavier Hufkens | | New York, Cheim & Read | 1996 | New York, Whitney Museum of American Art | | New York, Elkon Gallery | 1994 | New York, Museum of Modern Art, travelled to Houston, Los Angeles and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Retrospective | 1988 | Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Retrospective | 1987 | Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle | | Zurich, Kunsthaus, travelled to Madrid, London, Dusseldorf, Paris, Retrospective | | Bonn, Kunstmuseum | 1986 | Milwaukee, Art Center | 1984 | Baden-Baden, Kunsthalle | 1972 | Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus | 1965 | Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, travelled to Brussels, Amsterdam | 1953 | Florence, Galleria d´Arte Contemporanea |
Group exhibitions (selection) 2004 | Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin | | London, Gagosian Gallery Heddon, Drawings | 2003 | Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Happiness -
A Survival Guide for Art and Life | | Graz, Neue Galerie, SUPPORT 1 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung | | Graz, Neue Galerie, Phantom der Lust - Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst | | Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons | | Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich,
Talking Pieces | 2001, 1964 | Venice, Biennale, Lepanto Series | 1977, 1982 | Documenta 6, 7 |
Collections (selection)
Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York
Dia:Chelsea, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Kunsthaus Zürich
Menil Collection, Houston
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Reina Sofía, Madrid
Tate Modern, London |
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