Sep 10th 2009
Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Thursday, September 10th, from 6PM - 7PM
In his sculptures, Cy Twombly plies the diverse but confluent materials of found-object assemblage, plaster, paint, poetry, as well as traditional bronze casting. His constructions are simultaneously literal and abstract, material and metaphorical, difficult and affective. Join Kate Nesin of Princeton University as she explores how Twombly has pursued this rich sculptural practice for decades alongside his better-known painting production. While his sculpture stands as an independently successful body of work, its material extremes (and material confusions) can also help us think through the vexing hybridity of “sculpture” as a practice, and as an art-historical term.
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