Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In 1966, American painter Cy Twombly began a series of works which would set auction records for decades to come. His Blackboard paintings, created by scratching white crayon into wet grey oil paint, had a restrained palette but loose, gestural scrawls, appealing to both minimalist and abstract expressionist New York.\u00a0Almost 50 years later, Hungarian-born Rita Ackermann crafted a response, creating a series of Chalkboard Paintings by partially washing away drawings to leave semi-abstract works. \u201cI was around 22 when I made my first Cy-influenced works as a student,\u201d says the artist, now 56. \u201cOver the decades the affection looped back again and again.\u201d\u00a0On 10 June, Ackermann will open an exhibition of new works in Twombly\u2019s former home in Bassano In Teverina, central Italy. Entitled Manna Rain, the show is inspired by one of Twombly\u2019s largest works, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) (1970). A 33ft-long canvas in the style of his Blackboard series, it is said to be a response to The Veil of Orpheus, a 1950s musique concr\u00e8te (a composition that uses recorded sounds) which opens with the slow tearing of a piece of cloth. In Twombly\u2019s studio, Ackermann has created a mural, Ubiquitous (Outside of Time and Space), with the exact dimensions of the original work.\u00a0She focuses on rain, a nod to Twombly\u2019s frenetic mark-makingTwombly, who was born in Virginia, left for Italy in 1957 and remained there for the majority of his life. He went first to Rome, before extracting himself to the woodlands of Bassano, where he bought a 17th-century palazzo in 1975. Its tuff stone walls protected the painter from the summer sun, and he filled its cool corridors with remnants of Roman and Etruscan statues until his death in 2011. Restored and reopened by Twombly\u2019s family last year, the palazzo\u2019s four storeys are now used for exhibitions by New York\u2019s Amanita gallery.\u00a0For her latest project, Ackermann has adopted Twombly\u2019s toolkit of oil paints, crayons and pastels. She focuses on rain, a nod to Twombly\u2019s frenetic mark-making, with references ranging from the biblical \u2013 the mysterious \u201cmanna\u201d, which appeared like dew to feed the Israelites, is a recurring motif \u2013 to the cinematic. Mouchette in Hollywood recreates a scene of heavy rain at dusk from Robert Bresson\u2019s 1967 black-and-white film Mouchette; Ackermann\u2019s version is in pale oranges and pinks, slashed with grey.\u00a0Twombly\u2019s influence on Ackermann was not always obvious. Her early career was defined by figurative, almost cartoonish compositions of young women, reflecting \u201980s street art more than \u201950s modernism. Her bent for faces and figures remains. Some, like the bust in Bronze Tears, have a solidity which is unlike Twombly\u2019s oeuvre; elsewhere, her lines are freer. The result, Ackermann says, is a body of work which captures Twombly\u2019s \u201cpresence in the space while also continuing with my own trajectory in painting\u201d.\u00a0Manna Rain by Rita Ackermann is at Fondazione Iris, Bassano In Teverina, from 10 June to 30 July 2024. By appointment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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