ALESSANDRO TWOMBLY: GYRATING METAMORPHIC FLOWERS

22 July - 9 September 2023

  • ALESSANDRO TWOMBLY

    GYRATING METAMORPHIC FLOWERS

    22ND JULY - 9TH SEPTEMBER 2023

  • Gyrating Metamorphic Flowers is the name given to this group of six works on paper by Italian painter and sculptor Alessandro Twombly (b.1959 in Rome).

     

    The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘metamorphic’ as:  ‘…..altered considerably from the original structure and mineralogy by pressure and heat:’ from the Greek ‘meta’ meaning ‘changed’ and ‘morphe’ meaning ‘form’.

     

    In these sensory works figures, energies, forms - mineral, vegetable, human, animal - burst and glide across the paper, energetic, creatural, elegant, urgent, there and not there, transformed with masterful abstraction and colour from erstwhile floral composition to something deeper, something more compelling. Alessandro Twombly’s work cannot be neatly encapsulated by orderly genres and tidy generalisations but simply by ‘radici dell’essere’ - the ‘rootedness of being’ - at the heart of everything he does.

  • Alessandro has had many solo exhibitions for his paintings and sculptures from New York to Rome, Berlin, Basel, London, Brussels, Geneva, Köln, Buenos Aires, Helsinki and Milan, as well as in joint exhibitions worldwide.

    From March to September 2023 Alessandro is the featured artist of the Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection in Locarno, Switzerland. His exhibition ‘Radici dell’essere’ consists of 18 large paintings and several sculptures. 

     

    In April 2024 Alessandro will have a solo exhibition at the Amanita Gallery in New York City, his first time exhibiting in the city for 20 years.

     

    Alessandro lives and works in the hills of Lazio, northeast of Rome, in a house Richard Milazzo calls  - for very obvious reasons - The House of 10 Dogs.

  • EARLY YEARS

    Alessandro Cyrus Twombly was born in Rome in December 1959. His mother was  Italian artist and photographer Baroness Tatiana Franchetti; his father American artist Cy Twombly. In the early 1980’s Alessandro received a degree in Modern History from the London School of Economics before going to New York where he was studio assistant for Sandro Chia. 
    In 1986 Alessandro had his first solo show in Rome at the Bonomo Gallery. In 1994 he had his first show in New York at Richard Milazzo’s The Grand Salon. 

  • RECENT EXHIBITIONS

    2023
    The Rootedness of Being, Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno 
    2022
    Flow, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome
    2020
    Equinox, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London
    2019 - 2020
    Alessandro Twombly, Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan 
    2018
    Alessandro Twombly, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich 
    2017
    Alessandro Twombly, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome 
    2016
    Five Sculptures, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
    2013
    Parallel Landscapes, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva 
  • For further information please email gallery@velarde.co.uk