Beschreibung:
Horizon' presents new paintings from Sean Scully?s Landline series, and accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Timothy Taylor in autumn 2016. For over forty years, Scully has consistently been exploring his unique language of abstraction, which applies North American-influenced expression through the ocular of European art history. A richness of colour and pared down forms is fused with a gestural yet emotional abstraction. For Scully, a particular concern has consistently been the quest for expressive power within the application of a deliberately restricted repertoire of motifs. The modular forms which Scully deploys as units ? abutted, inset and interlocked ? succeed in developing interrelationships within the surfaces of his paintings, generating both physical and psychological tensions. The catalyst in charging Scully?s formal rigour with emotional content is the application of liberated brushwork, which injects meaning into even the liminal spaces where forms and colours meet. As the artist states, "at some time in the evolution of the surface, something more emotional has to happen."00Exhibition: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom (02.11.-17.12.2016)