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Article: Cy Twombly: Gagosian Gallery. (sculptor and painter)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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GAGOSIAN GALLERY
What I like about Cy Twombly's sculptures is the way they subvert all the cliches about his paintings. An original one - if a cliche can be called "original" - is Roland Barthes' notion that the canvases are a kind of writing manque; more ordinary is Arthur Danto's remark that the paintings are "dense with classical allusions" while remaining an "anthology of [abstract expressionist] marks." Peter Selz contradicts both, maintaining that Twombly's "scrawls carry no linguistic meaning" but rather "combine derisive gesture and indeterminate action." I suppose one sees what one is predisposed to see, but looking at Twombly's bronze sculptures one can't ...
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