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Sally Mann

Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington

June 22–September 8, 2017
Rome

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann. Photo: Matteo D'Eletto

Works Exhibited

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Solitary Print on Wall), 2012 Inkjet print, 23 × 34 ¾ inches (58.4 × 88.3 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Solitary Print on Wall), 2012

Inkjet print, 23 × 34 ¾ inches (58.4 × 88.3 cm)
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Wall Drip with Plug), 2012 Inkjet print, 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Wall Drip with Plug), 2012

Inkjet print, 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm)
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Flamingo and Blinds), 2012 Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Flamingo and Blinds), 2012

Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Open Book), 2012 Gelatin silver print - tea toned, 10 × 18 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Open Book), 2012

Gelatin silver print - tea toned, 10 × 18 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Traffic Cone), 2012 Inkjet print, 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Traffic Cone), 2012

Inkjet print, 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm)
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Glittery Hat), 2012 Gelatin silver print - tea toned, 10 × 18 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Glittery Hat), 2012

Gelatin silver print - tea toned, 10 × 18 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
© Sally Mann

About

There is a sense of immutable, eternal life. And in these new works there is a sense about Cy’s own continuum—the ongoing quality of his great legacy and his art—it’s not a memorialization, it’s a living thing.
—Sally Mann

Gagosian is pleased to present Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington, an exhibition by photographer Sally Mann. This is her first exhibition in Rome.

Mann is known and regarded for her images of intimate and familiar subjects—children, landscape, family, and the nature of mortality—rendered both sublime and disquieting. In previous projects, she explored relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, nature and history.

In her latest exhibition of color and black-and-white photographs, taken between 1999 and 2012, she records in fleeting impressions the Lexington, Virginia, studio of the late Cy Twombly, her close friend and mentor. Following presentations at Gagosian New York and Paris, this exhibition has special resonance in Italy, Twombly’s adopted and imaginative home for several decades.

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C’è una sensazione di immutabilità, di vita eterna. In questi nuovi lavori si percepisce un legame di continuità con Cy e con la grandezza della sua eredità e della sua arte. Non è una commemorazione, è qualcosa di vivo.
—Sally Mann

Gagosian è lieta di presentare Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington, la prima mostra a Roma di Sally Mann.

Mann è particolarmente nota ed apprezzata per la sua rappresentazione fotografica di soggetti intimi e familiari in situazioni idilliache e sottilmente inquietanti: bambini, paesaggi, famiglie, e la fragilità della vita umana. Nella sua lunga carriera l’artista ha esplorato la relazione tra genitori e figli, mariti e mogli, fratelli e sorelle, natura e storia.

In queste fotografie a colori e in bianco e nero, scattate tra il 1999 e il 2012, Mann registra in fuggevoli immagini lo studio di Lexington, Virginia, appartenuto a Cy Twombly, suo caro amico e mentore. Il progetto, presentato di recente nelle gallerie Gagosian di New York e Parigi, assume una particolare risonanza in Italia, casa adottiva e affettiva del pittore per diversi decenni.

Quei panorami dove Twombly tornava ogni anno e che impregnano anche l’immaginario di Mann, accomunano i due artisti entrambi nati e cresciuti in Virginia.

Nella sua recente e acclamata biografia Hold Still, Mann ricorda la natura semplice di Cy, la sua gentilezza tipica del Sud, il suo spirito ironico e amichevole, scrivendo: “La nostra parte di Sud, lontana, bellissima e patinata di passato, ci permette uno straniamento di altri tempi”.

Sotto la luce soffusa della Virginia e lo sguardo di Mann, le accumulazioni e gli oggetti comuni nello studio di Twombly rivelano sè stessi non solo come testimonianza di un’esistenza colta e creativa, permeata da una forte esperienza tattile, ma anche come segno dell’esuberanza del suo modus operandi: nelle parole di Simon Schama “resti di cibo, sbaffi, macchie e un’assenza tramutata in presenza”.

L’opera Remembered Light, Untitled (Solitary Print on Wall) (2012) mostra una fotografia scattata da Twombly a Gaeta appesa alla parete dello studio. Nell’immagine di Twombly si scorge distintamente un busto classico disposto accanto ad alcuni vasi: plasmate dalla luce del litorale, queste forme emanano una quieta nostalgia. Remembered Light, Untitled (Squat White Sculpture and Paint Edges) (2012), rivela la componente materica delle sculture di Twombly. Nonostante l’assenza fisica dell’artista, Mann è in grado di evocare vividamente le tracce della quotidianità del suo lavoro.

Nelle immagini poetiche di Mann, frammenti e residui della vita artistica di Twombly evidenziano l’acuta abilità della fotografa nel registrare il proprio sguardo intimo e immediato su un presente che diventa memoria.

Correda il progetto un catalogo illustrato pubblicato da Abrams con un saggio di Simon Schama e una conversazione tra Sally Mann e Edmund de Waal.

Sally Mann: Remembered Light

Sally Mann: Remembered Light

Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann discuss Cy Twombly’s relationship to photography, Mann’s pervasive interest in the American South, and the context behind her newest body of work.

Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes

to light, and then return—: A Night of Poetry with Edmund de Waal, Elisa Gonzalez, Terrance Hayes, and Sally Mann

Gagosian presented an evening of poetry inside to light, and then return—, an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann, inspired by each other’s practices, at Gagosian, New York. In this video—taking the artists’ shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis as a point of departure—poets Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes read a selection of their recent works that resonate with the themes of elegy and historical reckoning in the show. The evening was moderated by Jonathan Galassi, chairman and executive editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Five white objects lined up on a white shelf

to light, and then return—Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann

This fall, artists and friends Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann will exhibit new works together in New York. Inspired by their shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis, the works included will form a dialogue between their respective practices. Here they meet to speak about the origins and developments of the project.

Roe Ethridge's Two Kittens with Yarn Ball (2017–22) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2023

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Roe Ethridge’s Two Kittens with Yarn Ball (2017–22) on its cover.

Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser

Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser

During the 2022 edition of Paris Photo, Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser sat down for an intimate conversation as the first event in Gagosian’s Paris Salon series, initiated by Jessie Fortune Ryan. In light of Moser’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Susan Sontag, Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019), recently translated into French, the two discussed the power and responsibility tied up in their respective practices of photography and writing.

Still from "Sally Mann: Vinculum".

Sally Mann: Vinculum

Join Sally Mann at her studio in Lexington, Virginia. Filmed at work in her darkroom and within the surrounding landscape, she discusses her exploratory approach to making and printing pictures, what draws her to the landscape of the American South, and her newest body of work, Vinculum.

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Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Central to Mann’s investigation are the landscapes that she has photographed both near her home in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and across the South for over three decades. Often using a view camera, Mann draws on the history of both her medium and the Southern landscape to produce photographs that are expressive and elegiac.

Photo: © Annie Leibovitz