For more than twenty years Sean Scully (b. 1945) has been among the representatives of a manner of painting consciously linked to Modernism and committed to the autonomous expressive qualities of colour.

The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein shows the artist's early work in connection with later groups of works. The focus is on the constructive, in a broader sense architectonic, character of the colour. While subject to a strict picture structure until the end of the 1970s, it unfolds a painterly-haptic quality since the early 1980s. The image carrier receives a complexly arranged architectonic form with which the colour, be it in the form of stripes or fields, begins a lively interplay. In the course of the 1990s the architectonics of the picture carrier calm down. The colour, however, retains its painterly freedom and hereafter constitutes the picture as such – its material, structural and spatial appearance. 

With selected works from all of the artist's creative periods, some of which are being shown publicly for the first time, this exhibition reveals an aspect of Scully´s work which until now has received little attention, yet nevertheless is of great significance for the development of the oeuvre.

More pictures to this exhibition

  • Sean Scully
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Sean Scully
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Sean Scully
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Sean Scully
    Exhibition view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • Opening
  • Thu, 9.3.2006
    18.00
  • Thu 9.3.

    Opening

    Sean Scully
  • Sun 2.4.

    Families

    family sunday
    for children from 5 to 10 years and their (grand)parents
  • Sun 7.5.

    Families

    family sunday
    for children from 5 to 10 years and their (grand)parents