Sean Scully: Dark Yet

Since the early 1970s, Sean Scully has painted abstract pictures based in spirituality and metaphors on humanity and nature, rather than a straight minimalism. His compositions evoke landscape elements or architectural structures: horizon lines, rock formations, archaic buildings. This catalog offers an exhibition of recent paintings and graphic works from 2023/2024: the paintings—executed on aluminum, which gives them a shimmering depth—are developments on earlier series: Walls of Light from the 1990s, colored blocks vibrantly stacked on the picture plane, and Landlines from a decade later, forming horizontal strata of glorious but still earthy colors. A number of aquatints and drawings, based on a loose net-like pattern, offers more porous compositions, full of visual delicacy.