Cy Twombly’s works reach Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

The Art Gallery in Bilbao welcomes a monographic exhibition until February 15, 2009, organized in collaboration with the Tate Modern in London.

Coinciding with the American painter and sculptor Cy Twombly's eightieth birthday, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents from October 28, 2008, to February 15, 2009 the most important monographic exhibition that any Spanish institution has ever dedicated to this artist—one of the most influential of the latter half of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st— organized in collaboration with the Tate Modern in London.

A selection of nearly 100 works, including paintings, sculptures and drawings, will occupy the second floor and one gallery on the first floor, with particular emphasis on the most important thematic series created by the artist over the course of his career. Saving a few exceptions, the works are arranged in chronological order.

This exhibition also emphasizes the museum’s special relationship and commitment to this artist in recent years with the 2007 acquisition of his series Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963), the first unitarily conceived series that Cy Twombly has ever designed and around which the exhibit revolves.