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Friday 23 October 2009 - Sunday 14 February 2010
This landmark exhibition is dedicated to the work of Ireland’s most internationally celebrated artist, Sean Scully.
Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed The Imagery of Sean Scully is a major retrospective of Scully’s work, charting his
career from his early grid paintings of the 1970s to variations on the expansive and sensuously painted Wall of Light series that was shown to international acclaim at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006 to recent new work.
Born in Dublin in 1945, Scully has become the most internationally respected and widely exhibited abstract painter of his generation. This exhibition brings together over sixty paintings and additional works on paper to provide an authoritative and illuminating celebration of Scully’s career.
The Ulster Museum will be the only British and Irish venue for this important exhibition.
The title of the exhibition refers to the layered complexity of visual impressions that exist in all cities and have provided enduring and stimulating influences on Scully’s painting. Sean Scully has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and his work is represented in the collections of almost all the major international museums and galleries.
Scully settled in New York in 1975 and today he moves between his studios in Barcelona, Munich and New York.
‘I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that’s its job, in the history of art’
Sean Scully
Exhibition organised in conjunction with MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany.
Pictured above: Sean Scully Beckett, 2006. Private Collection, click image to enlarge.
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