"The Dublin-born painter Sean Scully is to have his first show in Switzerland in almost a decade, opening next month at the neo-classical Forum Paracelsus in St Moritz, which ... read more
“When I walked into Boisgeloup, I found that I couldn’t exhibit in the house because it’s coming from another time, another world. I preferred the rougher spaces,” says Scully... read more
“I’m coming to a very emotional place,” he says of his visit to Richmond Barracks while nodding to the transformative power of people and place “these can become places for ch... read more
Encountering a room of Scullys you might think: ‘Oh, a lot of stripes and squares’. But if you look at one for a while it takes you over. Like the teenage painter spending his... read more
In three rooms we see Scully pushing and pulling surface and depth in dense pastels, exquisitely watery aquatint and spitbite prints, and vast paintings, where he continues to... read more
Sean Scully’s work has been placed alongside a much-misunderstood seascape by Turner. The result is a fascinating exhibition full of insight, power and glorious melting colour... read more
Increasingly Post Modern art is in thrall to previous information. You have to know something, quite often something rather obscure and confined to your own little cultural ne... read more
Sometimes the lives of artists and art writers are linked together in mutually fruitful and revealing ways. When I started out writing about visual art, thirty-seven years ago... read more
For the first time, architect Luis Barragán's pink-walled masterwork of Mexican modernism is open to the public—as a gallery space. Cuadra San Cristóbal, built by Barragán in ... read more
"Sean Scully has a deep emotional attachment to his art, so he has no time for the coolness of today's abstraction..." read more
Sean Scully at Cuadra San Cristobal, 2018
Photo by Felix Friedmann