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Sean Scully
Catalogue produced on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2015
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SIGNED, NEW Exhibition Catalogue: "Sean Scully 1974-2015," Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2015 Texts: Ivo Mesquita, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Interview: Sean Scully, Philip Dodd. Portugese/English; 192 pages; 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 3/4 inches
APR 11, 2015
JUN 28, 2015
In April, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the art museum of São Paulo State Secretariat of Culture, presents the exhibit: Sean Scully: 1974–2015, opening on April 11.
Sponsored by Credit Suisse, Oi, and Iguatemi São Paulo, with cultural support of Oi Futuro, this is the first major retrospective in Brazil of this celebrated Irish artist. Scully’s works have rarely been seen in Brazil. In 2002 at the Rio de Janeiro Biennial and at Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, and now at the Pinacoteca, visitors can appreciate an overview of his creation in 46 works produced from 1974 to 2014, a large sampling that allows spectators to observe the variations in his creative process.
Sean Scully was born in Ireland in 1945, he was raised in London, and has lived in the United States since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen. He is the most important abstract painter of his generation. His work is internationally acclaimed and is part of some of the world’s foremost collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City; Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Tate, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.
Sean Scully’s paintings are abstract, composed of precise geometric shapes, with clear and demarcated lines. There are paintings with protruding blocks with a difference in thickness. He uses a variety of color palettes, ranging from shades of black and rich variations of brown and red, to vibrant colors like blue-pink and canary yellow.
In this exhibit, one can also see watercolors and pastels lesser known to the general public. Some of his paintings are very striking for their size, such as Darkness Here, 1989. Also on view in this exhibit is his largest painting, measuring 4 meters, and helped Sean become better known starting in the 1990s.
Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the exhibit will occupy the first floor of the Pinacoteca from April 11 to June 28, 2015.
- Creator:Sean Scully (1945, American)
- Creation Year:2015
- Dimensions:Height: 10.75 in (27.31 cm)Width: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU181029809692
Sean Scully
Born 1945, Dublin, Ireland; lives in New York City Born in Ireland in 1945, Sean Scully was raised and educated in London. In 1975, he moved to New York where he was immediately influenced by the geometric and color field painters working in that city: Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and, especially, Mark Rothko. Abandoning the figurative work he was pursuing at the time, Scully began working with the deliberately reduced set of motifs that have occupied him for the last twenty years. Scully gathers his motifs from everyday experience; he looks at doors, windows, road maps, and uses photography “as a means of defining the parameters of his own visual world.” He does not depict the world but finds in the world visual experiences that correspond to his artistic mission. Specifically, Scully seeks to portray the richness of life through the relationships between the colors of his characteristically dark and understated palette. The reduction of formal elements to stripes and squares allows the color relationships to be of utmost importance. In the indefinite transition zones between colors, Scully exposes the “mystery of ambivalence and uncertainty” that permeates the human experience. Sean Scully is one of the most important contemporary artists working today, and his work can be seen in museums around the world including the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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