Sean Scully - Sculpture, Figure Abstract & Bricklayer of the Soul - 2014-2019

Figure Abstract anglais/allemand (2014)
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.

Bricklayer of the Soul: Reflections in Celebration (2015)
This book features insights on Scully's art from his friend Bono to his former student Ai Weiwei and novelist Colm Tóibín. This volume is conceived for the artist's 70th birthday. Cartonnage gris, illustration contrecollée, 23 x 28 cm, 210 pages. Nombreuses reproductions en couleurs.

Sculpture (2019)
Sean Scully‘s abstract paintings are world-famous. In them he moves far beyond a purely formal confrontation with color, form, plane, and light by also incorporating his attitudes to-ward art, society, ethics, and metaphysics. To date, however, little attention has been paid to the fact that he also creates sculptures. For these, Scully layers elements made of steel, stone, bronze, and painted aluminum on top of each other, creating horizontal structures that expand upward, yet are also linked to the strip

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