Eros is the Greek word for passionate love, combined with sensual desire and longing. In Figures of Eros, Twombly creates a dynamic surface of anthropomorphic figures that take inspiration from the erotic engagement between nature and the mind as an evolutional series. With profound exploration of traditional mediums and openness to larger cosmic associations, Twombly creates through his paintings and sculptures a paradigmatic discourse between biological forms and their value as signs leading to the path of evolution: human perception and biological modes.
Alessandro Twombly was born in Rome, Italy in 1959 and currently resides in Rome. Apart from his solo exhibitions in New York, he has exhibited extensively in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and South America.
“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.” -- Denis Diderot
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David Nolan
Established in 1987, David Nolan Gallery specializes in contemporary works on paper by American and European artists. David Nolan Gallery has been the first gallery in the U.S. to show drawings by European artists such as Dieter Roth, Arnulf Rainer, Herman Nitsch, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, George Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, Ian Hamilton Finlay, as well as American artists Barry Le Va, John Newman, Mel Bochner and Carroll Dunham. In addition to group and solo contemporary shows, the program also includes museum-quality exhibitions featuring works in fields such as Surrealism, African sculpture, Korean porcelain, and Japanese lacquer ware. Although the gallery focused primarily on prints and works on paper early on, paintings and sculpture have become an important part of the present program.
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