Sean Skully is ‘Home’ in Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery

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‘Home’, an exhibition of new work by Sean Scully, continues at Kerlin Gallery until 29 August.

This exhibition comprises major new paintings and pastels from Sean Scully's recent 'Landline' series.

The ‘Landline’ series makes reference to the edge of land. Scully has removed almost all vertical forms from the works to create, in his own words, ‘a side-to-side motion’. The horizontal band becomes the central motif, mirroring land as it meets sea and air – but far from serene, the works capture movement and energy, showing an increased freedom of brushstroke. Scully’s loose horizontal bands mimic the repetitive yet wholly unpredictable rhythm of the sea, embracing its overlap, irregularity and discontinuousness.

Many of the works in this series are painted on aluminium, marking a relatively new development in Scully’s practice. Speaking of the material, he points out that ‘when one paints on it, it pushes back’. The relationship between Scully’s painted bands in the ‘Landline’ series therefore becomes one not just of colour, texture and form, but of weight and density – the material qualities of air, water and land become evident in his work. Scully’s rhapsodic bands push back – not only against each other, but also the surface they are painted on.

A fully illustrated publication, with a text by Declan Long, is available.

Major solo exhibitions taking place in 2015 include; 'Follow The Heart', Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, travelling to the CAFA Museum, Beijing; 'Sean Scully 1974-2015', Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; Carinthia, Museum Liaunig, Austria; 'Land Sea', Palazzo Falier, Venice Biennale, 'Figure-Abstract ', Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany, travelling to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, and a new permanent installation in the Romanesque chapel Santa Cecília de Montserrat, Barcelona. On 12 May Skully became the first living artist to have a major solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Kerlin Gallery
Anne's Lane
South Anne Street
DUBLIN 2
Ireland 

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