1957
L'Esperienza moderna no. 2, Aug/Sept pp.32-33, Roma
Cy Twombly: “Signs”
Archivio: Mart, Archivio del ´900, fondo ANS
Reprinted in German in Blatter und Bilder, Jan-Feb. 1961, 12, pp. 62-63.
Inspired by a reading of Mallarmé
"To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release; and by crisis it should by no means be limited to a morbid state, but could just as well be one ecstatic impulse, or in the process of a painting, run a gamut of states. One must desire the ultimate essence even if it is ‘contaminated.’ Each line now is the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate—it is the sensation of its own realization…. The idea of falling into obscurities or subjective nihilism is absurd - such ideas can only be held by a lack of reference or experience.."
