SALLY MANN AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY ROME
Gagosian Gallery is presenting an important exhibition called “Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington,” made by the photographer Sally Mann.
That's the first time of Sally Mann in Rome.
Sally Mann is known and regarded for her images of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting: children, landscape, family, and the nature of mortality.
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, Sally Mann 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.
Twombly and Mann were both born and raised in Virginia.
Remembered Light, Untitled (Solitary Print on Wall) (2012) shows a wall of the
Virginia studio, and, stapled to it, a photograph taken by Twombly in Gaeta (Italy).
In Twombly's image, as captured by Mann, there is a just discernible view of a classical bust arranged with several vases; silhouetted by the coastal light, these shapes exude a quiet sense of nostalgia.
And with Remembered Light, Untitled (Squat White Sculpture and Paint Edges) (2012), Mann
indicates the tactile processes leading to the creation of one of his sculptures.
Even without the artist's actual presence, she is able to vividly evoke the traces of his daily life and work.
Mann’s poetic images of time recorded capture fragments and deposits of Twombly’s artistic
life. As well, they speak to her deft, sharp ability to record interiority and her singular eye for the
immediate, the intimate, and the present becoming memory.
A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Simon Schama, and a conversation between Sally
Mann and Edmund de Waal, published by Abrams, accompanies the exhibition.
Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work.
A Guggenheim fellow, and a three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Mann was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine in 2001.
Sally Mann has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994), and What Remains (2007).
Her most recent book, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown, 2015), has been met
with critical acclaim and is a New York Times best seller, along with being shortlisted for the National Book Award and recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Nonfiction.
Collections include:
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London;
- The Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.;
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX;
- The High Museum of Art, Atlanta;
- The The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Next “Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings,” a major retrospective of Mann’s work, will be in
March 2018 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and will travel to major
institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,
MA
Location
Gagosian Gallery Rome
Via Francesco Crispi 16
00187 Rome
Opening reception
Thursday, June 22, 6–8PM
June 22–September 8, 2017
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