Cy Dear

A tribute to one of the most prolific and influential American artists of the 20th century. Cy Twombly, who died in Rome in 2011, was a painter, illustrator, sculptor and photographer. A contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, he lived between the United States and Italy and influenced, among them, artist as such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel. Between the 50s and 60s, his style represented a break in the world of painting and figurative art in general. Andrea Bettinetti’s film follows the artist’s life through archival material and interviews with friends, family and curators (including Nicola Del Roscio, president of the Cy Twombly Foundation, the artist’s son Alessandro Twombly and gallerist Larry Gagosian), from his early years in Rome (where he met his future wife, artist Tatiana Franchetti), his frequent trips to America and sojourns in New York and Virginia, until his mature years and old age, revealing a gentle, unselfish and poetic personality.