Ocula Conversation Sean Scully By Elliat Albrecht, Guangzhou Already recognised in the Western art historical canon, 71-year-old Irish-born, American-based artist Sean Scully ’s oil paintings are characterised by their geometric constructions and painterly expression. These two disparate modes marry in the artist’s canvases and act as a retort to the rigidity of last century’s hard...
Related Press Sean Scully takes up residence in Picasso’s former studio at Château de Boisgeloup 6 November 2019, Wallpaper* 'I'm the Donald Trump of the art world,' Sean Scully jokingly declared in the BBC documentary released in April this year about his art and life as one of the world's wealthiest living artists, in which he jets around the world on his private jet.
Related Press Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces 20 July 2019, Hyperallergic VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale's collateral displays were Sean Scully's Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo for The Brooklyn Rail. Scully's show is a magisterial display of a...
Related Press The Best Things to See at the 2019 Venice Biennale 13 May 2019, AnOther The 58 th edition of the Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times curated by Ralph Rugoff–from London’s very own Hayward Gallery–proves to be as interesting as its title promises. Venice is an easy city to get lost in, and it’s easy to see why Proust dubbed the city’s labyrinth of alleyways a network of 'innumerable slender capillary...
Related Press Sean Scully’s Figurative Leap 9 March 2019, Hyperallergic When I became an art critic in 1981 one of the first artists I met and wrote about was Sean Scully. At that time I was teaching philosophy in Pittsburgh and he, having recently moved to New York, was as yet without a dealer. We are almost the same age, and to some extent we grew up together. When we first met, he had just made the transition from...
