Tacita Dean: 'Why Cy' [Book signing]


Tacita Dean will be signing copies of Why Cy, her new book of photographs created during her overnight stay in the Cy Twombly Gallery on the Menil Collection Campus. The book offers a vibrant visual dialogue with Cy Twombly’s work, and coincides with the Menil’s current exhibition Tacita Dean: Blind Folly

Sunday 9 February 
11:00 13:00 

Cy Twombly Gallery 
Menil Collection
1501 Branard Street 
Houston, TX 77006

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About Why Cy

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 Twombly’s work organised by the artist to augment the building’s mood of disorientation and temporal suspension. For Dean, it is a site of pilgrimage and ‘a place to go out of your head’. 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, 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 black-and-white photographs that pay homage to this singular artist. It reflects Dean’s longstanding admiration for Twombly’s work and her close affinity with it, while at the same time taking a new, surprising, and unintended path. 

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Image: Tacita Dean 



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