The White Sculptures
During his lifetime Cy Twombly produced many
white sculptures.
Humble sculptures made of humble materials,
often untitled.
Sometimes recalling historic moments or battles,
or with classical references. Elegiac.
At times he incorporated leaves or flowers,
his love of nature.
White transformed the mundane into the sublime
White erased the past.
White made his sculpture universal, transforming odds and ends,
into mythical objects.
Metamorphoses.
2019, edition of 20
7 x 10 inches, 52 pages, softcover, pamphlet stitched binding presented in dustjacket and slipcase (includes 21 images and a poem)
Prints available upon request
Collections
Columbia University; Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio; Getty Research Institute; McGill University; Menil Collection; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; National Poetry Library London; University of Minnesota; Yale University
Exhibitions
Menil Bookstore, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, 2020
Press
Traces of Virgil as a Chalk Giant: Ewa Monika Zebrowski’s Meditation on Cy Twombly by James D. Campbell, Ciel variable, Winter 2020
Book Arts Newsletter (ed. Sarah Bodman), no. 129, December 2019-January 2020
