The first in Russia exhibition "living classic abstraction" by Sean Scully opened in the Multimedia Art Museum

The first in Russia exhibition "living classic abstraction" by Sean Scully opened in the Multimedia Art Museum
9 November 2017, Thursday

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin present an exhibition of modern art stars, the famous artist and teacher Sean Scully "Face to the East."

 

The large-scale exposition for the first time gives Russian audiences an opportunity to follow the development of the artist's creativity from the late 60s to the present.


The exposition includes paintings of watercolors, pastels and compositions in mixed technique. Moving along the exhibition from one work to another - from single figures created in 1967 to strict musical "Horizons" created almost half a century later, the audience will witness the formation of the characteristic recognizable visual language of Sean Scully.


Already for half a century, Sean Scully has created his artistic universe by accumulating and developing the best plastic traditions of the early twentieth century, combining them with the most complex metaphysical concepts originating in ancient Greek philosophy, while also referring to the latest philosophical practices reflecting a rapidly changing reality.


"Sean Scully built his own unique system, where color and lines, demonstrating the erosion and articulation of boundaries, express the most important social problems of mankind. His rigidly structured works are filled with the subtlest vibrations of meanings and experiences, "says Olga Sviblova, director of MAMM.


Shawn Scully, an Irishman by birth, received a brilliant art education in Britain, has been working in New York since 1975, and since the early 2000s his life and work are inextricably linked to New York and Berlin.


In 1989 and 1993, Shawn Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of contemporary art, in 2010, Scully received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the University of Newcastle, and in 2013 became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. According to the legendary critic and culturologist Arthur Danto, the name of Sean Scully "is included in the shortest of the short sheets of the leading painters of our era."


His works are in permanent collections of the largest museums and galleries of the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in London, the Tate Gallery in London / Tate Gallery and other


Shawn Scully's exhibition "Face to the East" was opened in the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, until the beginning of December 10, 2017, after the show she will be shown in the Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg.

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