Museum De Pont

Doric Proteus 2013

Sean Scully
21 April - 26 August 2018.

Internationally, Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) is viewed as a leading abstract artist. With his solo exhibition at De Pont he will be making his debut in the Netherlands. Not only are Scully's paintings, works on paper and photographs being seen here for the first time: the exhibition has yet another surprise in store for the visitor - a recent series of figurative paintings.
Born in Dublin, Sean Scully grew up in a working-class neighborhood in South London. The paintings that he discovered in a local Catholic Church were, along with rhythm-and-blues music, a formative element in his life. During the 1970s Scully moved to New York, and in 1983 he became an American citizen. This was the same year in which his nineteen-year-old son Paul lost his life. In Scully's work, events from his private life continue to surface in combination with historical and cultural influences. He feels strongly linked to current political and social developments.
Sean Scully has been nominated twice, in 1989 and 1993, for the Turner Prize and is represented in the collections of renowned museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London. Through 5 August the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe is also showing a selection of his work in the exhibition Vita Duplex.

For further information or requests for photo material, please contact: h.zeedijk@depont.nl

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