Galerie Karsten Greve presents an exhibition dedicated to one of the most decisive bodies of work in Cy Twombly's oeuvre: the Sperlonga Drawings, created in 1959. Bringing together a rare group of works on paper, the exhibition revisits the summer of 1959, when the artist, recently settled in Italy, stayed in the village of Sperlonga on the coast of Lazio. During this pivotal period, Twombly produced around thirty works that marked a major turning point in his artistic practice. Nestled between Rome and Naples, Sperlonga is an emblematic place that held a profound fascination for Twombly. The artist was especially captivated by its Mediterranean light, describing the sea as "white three-quarters of the time." This luminous whiteness of the dazzling sun and the lime-washed houses permeates his works. Added to this experience was the nearby presence of the Roman Emperor Tiberius's villa, where the discovery in 1957 of a group
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