I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY
Bassano in Teverina
I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY, Bassano in Teverina
is about absence and loss, and the ephemeral nature of being.
A visual poem, of memory, remembrance and dreams.
We experience the spaces where the artist spent many years living and working.
We move from room to room, image by image, his presence palpable, despite his absence.
I NEVER KNEW CY TWOMBLY, Bassano in Teverina is a visual journey.
The celebrated artist, Cy Twombly, chose to live between Italy and the United States. He lived in Rome, Bassano in Teverina, and Gaeta for over 50 years. Almost every year he would return to Lexington, Virginia where he was born, and set up a studio and paint.
It was Italy, however, that nurtured his imagination and his spirit. In March 2015 his son, Alessandro, took me to the house in Bassano in Teverina where he had lived.
A kind of pilgrimage.
I was moved to see the empty spaces where Cy Twombly had lived and worked. I could feel the residue of time, and the loss.
2023, edition of 250
Published by Nearest Truth Editions
8 x 6 inches, softcover book, Swiss Bound, printed on Munken Pure 120gr
82 pages, 37 colour photographs and text
Afterword by Dean Rader
Poem by Ewa Monika Zebrowski
ISBN 978-1-7381003-0-9
Press
Review by Louis Perreault, Ciel Variable, 5 December 2023
A Conversation Between Dean Rader and Ewa Monika Zebrowksi, Adroit Journal, 4 December 2023
Ciel Variable book photographs: Louis Perreault