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Sean Scully

SEAN SCULLY

Soul Thaddaeus Ropac 3 September–9 November 2024 Seoul Fort Hill
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Featuring six new paintings, Soul brings together works from Sean Scully’s celebrated Wall of Light and Landline series. The exhibition conveys the significance of place to the artist’s ongoing exploration of the stripe and block motifs that structure his distinct approach to abstraction. The paintings trace the artist’s recent return to London, which is reflected in the steel-grey undertones of their colour palettes to evoke the brooding light of the city that surrounds his studio in Kentish Town, an area of North London referenced in the title of one of the works.

Alongside the urban environment, Scully cites ‘the muscular light of Constable’ as a key inspiration for the new paintings. Sharing the English landscapist’s preoccupation with capturing the specific atmospheric conditions of a place, he translates the high-contrast interplay of darkness and light that characterises John Constable’s pastoral scenes into his own abstract language. Subtly variegated blocks of blue, red, green and purple are layed down on copper, aluminium and linen – their tonal modulations imbuing the paintings with a luminosity resonant with the European landscape tradition that Scully draws upon. ‘I’m really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time,’ he has said, ‘the logical and the romantic.’

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About the Artist

Two-time Turner Prize nominee, artist Sean Scully has long been a proponent of abstraction. He is best known for his large-scale, grid-like paintings.

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About the Gallery

Founded in 1983, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac has galleries across Europe, in London, Paris and Salzburg, and an expanding team in Asia. Specialising in contemporary art and representing over 60 artists, the gallery supports and showcases the careers of some of the most influential artists today with a wide-ranging programme of over 40 exhibitions each year across its five extensive and historic gallery spaces.

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2F, 122-1, Dokseodang-ro
Yongsan-gu
Seoul
South Korea
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
Closed Public holidays
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Seoul 2F, 122-1, Dokseodang-ro, Yongsan-gu
Thaddaeus Ropac contemporary art gallery in Seoul Fort Hill South Korea
Thaddaeus Ropac
2F, 122-1, Dokseodang-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
+82 2 6949 1760

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
Closed Public holidays
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