{"id":50337,"date":"2023-08-17T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/ektheseis\/theikoi-dialogoi\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:19:26","slug":"theikoi-dialogoi","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/ektheseis\/theikoi-dialogoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity<\/h1>

DIVINE DIALOGUES<\/p>

MAY 25 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3, 2017<\/p><\/header>

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THE EXHIBITION<\/h2> <\/header>\n\n \n
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\n In 2017 Athens became the centre of the contemporary art scene, hosting along Kassel, documenta 14. At the same period, the Museum of Cycladic Art organised the exhibition Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity.\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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It was the first exhibition organised as part of the Divine Dialogues exhibition series, in the context of which contemporary artworks are presented next to ancient masterpieces, revealing a unique and original dialogue between ancient Greek and contemporary art. Twenty-seven works by American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) inspired by Greece and Greek mythology were presented for the first time together with twelve ancient works of art.<\/p>\n

Cy Twombly\u2019s fascination with Greece is well known. Even though he first visited the country during the summer of 1960, Greek mythology takes an important place in his oeuvre already since the late 1950s. But it was only in the 1970s that he explored the Greek history and mythology in depth, culminating with his masterpiece, the cycle Fifty Days at Iliam<\/em> (1978, Philadelphia Museum of Art).<\/p>\n

Twombly\u2019s response to that decade\u2019s disdain for painting was to transform it into writing, as in the famous large drawings Venus<\/em> and Apollo<\/em> (1975), or the later, monumental Orpheus<\/em> drawings (1979). In his artworks \u2013both in drawings and sculptures\u2013 he frequently alluded to the Olympian gods, from the major figures of Aphrodite, Apollo and Dionysus, to Nike, Pan, or Aristaeus.<\/p>\n

In each section of the exhibition, opposite to Cy Twombly\u2019s works was displayed a selection of ancient Greek deities, \u2018heroes\u2019 and personifications, creations of Archaic and Classical art that shaped and illustrated the characters and objects of Greek mythology, the source of his own inspiration. A special place at the very core of the exhibition held an unexpected visitor: the famous Fran\u00e7ois Vase, also known as the Kleitias and Ergotimos Krater, a milestone in the development of ancient Greek pottery and vase painting, bearing inscriptions and names representing a number of mythological themes, which traveled for the first time outside Italy, from the Archaeological Museum of Florence.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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