Why Cy / Tacita Dean.

Main entry:

Dean, Tacita, 1965- artist.

Title & Author:

Why Cy / Tacita Dean.

Publication:

[London?] : MACK ; Houston : Menil Collection, [2025]
©2025

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 35 cm + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations ; 20 x 15 cm)

Notes:
Title from spine.
All illustrations.
Limited edition of 1000 copies.
My night with Cy is an insert for the artist's book Why Cy by Tacita Dean and was compiled from notes and drawings made by the artist during her overnight stay in the Cy Twombly Gallery at the Menil Collection, Houston, 7 into 8 February 2024.

Summary:

In February 2024, Tacita Dean undertook a residency in the Cy Twombly Gallery at the Menil Collection in Houston. Designed by architect Renzo Piano in collaboration with Twombly, the Gallery houses a display of Twombly's work organised by the artist to augment the building's mood of disorientation and temporal suspension. For Dean, it is a site of pilgrimage and 'a place to go out of your head'. Dean has loved the work of the American painter and sculptor since writing her art school thesis on him in the late 1980s. She photographed his studio home in Gaeta, Italy, in 2009, made a film with him in 2011 called Edwin Parker, and has written about his work on numerous occasions. During her time at the Menil, she asked permission to spend a night in the Gallery. Why Cy is a book of exuberant adoration, full of colour and black-and-white photographs that pay homage to this singular artist. It reflects Dean's longstanding admiration for Twombly's work and her close affinity with it, while at the same time taking a new, surprising, and unintended path.

ISBN:

9781915743886 (softcover)
1915743885 (softcover)

Subject:

Dean, Tacita, 1965-
Twombly, Cy, 1928-2011 Influence.
Conceptual art History 21st century.
Conceptual art 21st century.
Art conceptuel 21e siècle.
Art conceptuel Histoire 21e siècle.

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
Artists' books.
Livres d'artistes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 321968
Call No.: 321968
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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