The names of Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928 – Rome 2011) and Gastone Novelli (Vienna, 1925 – Milan 1968) are inextricably linked to Rome. The first, after his second visit in 1957, settled there permanently; the second, who had grown up in Rome, participated in the resistance and was captured by the SS in 1943, tortured and sentenced to death. The sentence was later changed into life imprisonment and Novelli returned to the city in 1955 after a long stay in Brazil.

Both found a fertile and receptive artistic environment in Rome; if Novelli's meeting with Twombly remains decisive for the development of his own poetics, the influences were mutual at least until the early sixties, in a closeness of intentions that was more apparent than real, which often united their signifying in a common and generic direction, also made up of frequent quotations and literary references.

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Palazzo Esposizioni Roma – Sala Auditorium

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a, Roma

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