"Cy Twombly's epic 10-part painting, Coronation of Sesostris, is a singular focus of an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York. The painting is a response to Twombly's fascination with war and is compared to Beethoven's Eroica symphony in the way it dashes through emotional extremes and pounding cadences. The painting depicts the solar barge of Sesostris mythologized by the sun god Ra in his journey across the sky. The exhibition presents a complex tango between image and text where both mediums are metaphoric translations of each other. The edge between them creates a space of incongruence and paradox, which is pungently defined, with verbal meaning of the script and visceral sensation of the paint alternating in focus, hinging upon each other as they dance.
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