Cy Twombly at the Collection Lambert, Avignon
Jun 5th 2007
on view June 5 through September 30, 2007.
This Summer Cy Twombly offers a landmark exhibition to the Collection Lambert en Avignon. Born in 1928 in Virginia, Twombly has lived in Italy for more than fifty years. This immensely important American artist creates in all his maturity, in the abundance of those who have nothing left to prove but still always keeps searching. The last occasion to see his work in France dates back to the retrospective of his works on paper held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, presented in 2001, which then went on to the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. For Avignon, it is quite simply an entire exhibition that the artist has specially created, taking into consideration, of course, the very specific Provençal light, but also all the constraints of the museum's spaces - the classic order of the hôtel particulier's entrance, the large French doors allowing the summer sun to penetrate within, the symmetrical wandering of the ground floor spaces that unfurl from left to right in very classic succession. Calling upon Hokusai, this "old man mad about drawing" to address this manifest exhibition by Cy Twombly is not simply an aesthetic fantasy; Japanese art history is intrinsically contained and assumed in this cycle of paintings that Cy Twombly has generously offered to us.
VISITOR INFORMATION
Collection Lambert
Hôtel de Caumont
5, rue Violette
84000 Avignon
FRANCE
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