![Cy Twombly
Pasargade, 1994
Wood, stone, white paint| 34x80x31.5 cmwritten verso in pencil:
‘Memory of PasargadeTo separate the Light from the silenceAnd the light from the calm’fragment from a poem by George Seferis
The funerary monument form of this work draws its structure from what is believed to be the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great (559-530BC) in Pasargadae, the former capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia…Twombly’s version is cursorily assembled from a crudely whitewashed trapezoidal wooden box, forming a truncated pyramid, mounted by a smaller square box made of wood and topped off with a smaller square piece of stone. Twombly’s stele structure, made from remnants and found fragments, unified with a coat of white paint [‘White paint is my marble’, said he], rescues these gleaned objects from obsolescence. turning the whole into a monument that belies the ephemeral and quotidian parts of its construction.’
from Cullinan, N. (2011) Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian painters Dulwich Picture Gallery: London](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4x0lVcOK1r5cn96o1_1280.jpg)
Pasargade, 1994
Wood, stone, white paint| 34x80x31.5 cm
written verso in pencil:
‘Memory of Pasargade
To separate the Light from the silence
And the light from the calm’
fragment from a poem by George Seferis
The funerary monument form of this work draws its structure from what is believed to be the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great (559-530BC) in Pasargadae, the former capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia…Twombly’s version is cursorily assembled from a crudely whitewashed trapezoidal wooden box, forming a truncated pyramid, mounted by a smaller square box made of wood and topped off with a smaller square piece of stone. Twombly’s stele structure, made from remnants and found fragments, unified with a coat of white paint [‘White paint is my marble’, said he], rescues these gleaned objects from obsolescence. turning the whole into a monument that belies the ephemeral and quotidian parts of its construction.’
from Cullinan, N. (2011) Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian painters Dulwich Picture Gallery: London
Pasargade, 1994
Wood, stone, white paint| 34x80x31.5 cm
written verso in pencil:
‘Memory of Pasargade
To separate the Light from the silence
And the light from the calm’
fragment from a poem by George Seferis
The funerary monument form of this work draws its structure from what is believed to be the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great (559-530BC) in Pasargadae, the former capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia…Twombly’s version is cursorily assembled from a crudely whitewashed trapezoidal wooden box, forming a truncated pyramid, mounted by a smaller square box made of wood and topped off with a smaller square piece of stone. Twombly’s stele structure, made from remnants and found fragments, unified with a coat of white paint [‘White paint is my marble’, said he], rescues these gleaned objects from obsolescence. turning the whole into a monument that belies the ephemeral and quotidian parts of its construction.’
from Cullinan, N. (2011) Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian painters Dulwich Picture Gallery: London
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