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Why Cy?

By (author) Tacita Dean

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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 Twomblyâ€™s work organised by the artist to augment the buildingâ€™s mood of disorientation and temporal suspension. For Dean, it is a site of pilgrimage and â€˜a place to go out of your headâ€™. 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,Â¬ 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 blackandwhite photographs that pay homage to this singular artist. It reflects Deanâ€™s longstanding admiration for Twomblyâ€™s work and her close affinity with it, while at the same time taking a new, surprising, and unintended path.Â The book includes a booklet of notes by Dean developed out of her night with Cy, and coincides with the exhibition â€˜Tacita Dean: Blind Follyâ€™ at The Menil Collection (11 October 2024â€“19 April 2025), which includes a room dedicated to celebrating the connection between Dean and Twombly.