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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Year | 2014 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | English, German |
ISBN | 978-3-7757-3900-9 |
Pages | 200 |
Weight | 1398 g |
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Contributors | Marc O'Sullivan, Beate Reifenscheid, Sean Scully |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunsthalle Rostock |
Article ID | art-15883 |
Scully’s early figurative works in dialogue with his abstract oeuvre
Sean Scully (* 1945 in Dublin) is considered one of the most significant abstract painters of our time. For decades he has produced a wealth of variations on his core theme of lines and stripes, creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression from the romantic to the melancholic.
Early on in his career Scully did figural work, to which he still feels indebted; “To this day my paintings retain a sense of the body, and the feeling of a physical relationship with the world.” He considers German Expressionism one of his sources of inspiration and specifically cites the influence of artists André Derain, Henri Matisse, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
The stroke of the brush is a visible component of his painterly abstractions. The edges of his fields of color are delineated by hand, which lends his compositions a haptic quality. Presenting surprising new perspectives on the artist’s work, this publication is the first study on the interplay between figuration and abstraction in Scully’s oeuvre.