A new exhibition at the late painter’s palazzo reveals a decades-long source of inspiration
In 1966, American painter Cy Twombly began a series of works which would set auction records for decades to come. His Blackboard paintings, created by scratching white crayon into wet grey oil paint, had a restrained palette but loose, gestural scrawls, appealing to both minimalist and abstract expressionist New York. Almost 50 years later, Hungarian-born Rita Ackermann crafted a response, creating a series of Chalkboard Paintings by partially washing away drawings to leave semi-abstract works.
Its tuff stone walls protected the painter from the summer sun, and he filled its cool corridors with remnants of Roman and Etruscan statues until his death in 2011. Restored and reopened by Twombly’s family last year, the palazzo’s four storeys are now used for exhibitions by New York’s Amanita gallery. For her latest project, Ackermann has adopted Twombly’s toolkit of oil paints, crayons and pastels.
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