Word: lepanto
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...last week, is not so much a loaded gun as a full-firing AK-47. An ageing enfant terrible of British theater, playwright Barker creates his own "theatre of catastrophe" by taking aim at history, whether the 1683 Siege of Vienna in The Europeans or the 1571 Battle of Lepanto in Scenes From an Execution. With Victory, for which Davis auditioned when it premiered at London's Royal Court in 1984, the battlefield is the post?Civil War reign of Charles...
...Twombly’s Lepanto at Gagosian Gallery
...Twombly’s latest painting series, “Lepanto,” is a twelve-panel suite of paintings created in the early months of 2001 for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, where he received the prized Leone d’Oro award. The series is principally a contemplation and revival of the legendary Lepanto battle of 1571 where a combined Spanish, Venetian and Papal armada fought and defeated the imposing fleet of the Ottoman Empire. The battle of Lepanto was celebrated widely as a decisive turning point in the struggle between East and West...
...Lepanto is a synthesis of Twombly’s artistic experience and exploration of this line of thought. He deals with the famous sea battle through an investigation of carnage, destruction, tragedy, valor, victory, vulnerability, blood, physicality and even sexuality and eroticism...
...suite is a passionate outburst that is moving and poignant when considering individual panels and overwhelming when experienced in its entirety. While each concentrated gathering of paint and drips is reference to the violence and destruction of Lepanto, they are also a string of erotic encounters, an invocation of sexual climax and release. Twombly brilliantly makes us see the aggression in love and the eroticism in violence...