'Dark Windows', a suite of five paintings completed in early 2020, combines Sean Scully’s lyrically intense horizontal bands from his 'Landlines' series with an inset painting – a practice of the artist since 1972. 

Scully’s interest in the idea of the window as an image within an image made him capture this motif in his paintings, graphic works, and photography. 'Dark Windows' though stands for a significant development within this work. In the wake of the pandemic, Scully’s windows have turned black for the very first time and the rectangular inset seems to block out the romantic bands of the 'Landline' paintings with their coming together of land, see, and horizon. 'We have what we idealistically imagine, which is represented by this seductive painting, and what we actually have, which is a blacked-out view, a very uncertain, hard view.', he says. 

Sean Scully has often referred to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats when speaking of his own work: 'One might say that the Romantic impulse needs and depends upon friction, divide, and schism and this is a problem of identity, a split which can be worked out and resolved through the making of art ...'

'Dark Windows' incorporates this duality with masterly proportion and austerity, bringing out a clairvoyant appraisal of our relationship to nature. It is a painterly declaration calling to mind the work of Kazimir Malevich, with the fundamental directness of the black inset punctuating the romantic lines of nature, while yet again his Landlines embrace the blackness and take it out of isolation: an unflinchingly humanistic view of our times. 

Sean Scully (born 1945 in Dublin) is recognized as one of the most important abstract painters of our time. His works have been shown in more than 200 solo exhibitions and are represented internationally in numerous museum collections. Scully lives and works in Upstate New York, France, and Germany.

Sean Scully at Art Basel Unlimited

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Liliane Tomasko’s art is rooted in the themes of sleep and the unconscious. Titled after the ancient Greek god of dreams, this exhibition focuses on states of transformation between waking and sleeping that Tomasko captures in her works on canvas, aluminium and paper. Through the use of an unbiased and intuitive colour palette Tomasko succeeds to seize the entire spectrum of the human condition.

Liliane Tomasko at Kunstmuseum Kloster unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

The local and the global, uniqueness and diversity come together in Bienalsur which aims to establish a global network of collaboration by linking five continents and their artists, venues and audiences.

Kimsooja at Bienalsur - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Parallel to his exhibition at Kewenig Gallery, Jose Dávila presents ‘Primitive Irruption’ in the Moll Vell district of Palma, in collaboration with Autoridad Portuaria. The sculpture – consisting of steel beams stacked with a boulder – is shaped by a seemingly delicate equilibrium that embodies gravity, resistance and the latent energy at play in space and time.

Jose Dávila at Moll Vell, Palma, Spain

On the street, after listening to several conversations held by residents of the working-class neighbourhoods of Palma, Marcelo Viquez extracted, from nine conversations, the statements that have resonated the most to him and translated them into a website.

Marcelo Viquez in Palma and online

'Usagi Kannon' (2012/2019) by Leiko Ikemura has found a new temporary spot at Parc del Mar in Palma de Mallorca. The outdoor installation is part of an exhibition in collaboration with the Ajuntament de Palma and Casal Solleric. 

Leiko Ikemura at Parc de la Mar, Palma, Spain

For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Leiko Ikemura presents 50 works from the last 30 years of her career, including a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs. The exhibition focuses on the interconnection between nature, animal and human – a theme that Ikemura approaches with sensitivity.

Leiko Ikemura at Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, England

This retrospective exhibition covers a time span of almost 50 years in which the artist has continuously developed his approach to abstraction. It gathers 49 paintings as well as 42 works on paper: pastels, drawings and prints from various phases that have hardly ever been exhibited together.

Sean Scully at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, United States

Entitled 'Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends', this is the 8th edition of the oldest Danish biennial, which was established in 2002. This edition reflects upon past, present and future through the lenses of more 58 international artists.  

Giovanni Anselmo, Kimsooja, Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

As one of the first artists invited to exhibit in the extraordinary new spaces of the Pinault Collection at the Bourse de Commerce in the very centre of Paris, Bertrand Lavier shows a selection of his most famous series of works like the ‘Walt Disney Productions’,  ‘Objets soclés’ and ‘Objets peints’.

Bertrand Lavier at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France

This major retrospective gathers works from the 1970s up until now, presenting masterpieces on loan from Russian museums and unveiling Pivovarov's most recent production. The thematic layout of the exhibition invites the viewer into the artist's surrealist universe, using an array of audiovisual elements for a complete immersion.

Viktor Pivovarov at the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Kewenig is proud to present the most comprehensive catalogue on Ghada Amer's ceramic work. The book showcases pieces that Amer created during her residencies at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, in the years 2014 to 2017 as well as a photographic documentation of her work in the studios of Cerámica Suro in Mexico. 

Ghada Amer: Ceramics

Kewenig is delighted to present 'Rhythm Nature Movement God', the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work of painter Elisabeth Frieberg. Articulated around a new essay by Jurriaan Benshop and a conversation between the artist and Cinta Villapadierna-Kewenig, this publication surveys a body of works created between 2008 and 2020. 

Elisabeth Frieberg: Rhythm Nature Movement God

For over twenty years, Liliane Tomasko has explored the themes of dreams, sleep and the unconscious within her artistic practice. This book follows the evolution of her painting. 

Liliane Tomasko: we sleep where we fall. Paintings 2000-2020

Founded in 1986 by Jule Kewenig, the gallery is a home to painters and conceptualist artists alike and establishes dialogues between different generations and cultures.

Founded in 1986 by Jule Kewenig, the gallery is a home to painters and conceptualist artists alike and establishes dialogues between different generations and cultures.

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Sean Scully at Art Basel Unlimited

20 Sep 2021 - 26 Sep 2021

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Art Basel

24 Sep 2021 - 26 Sep 2021

External exhibitions

External exhibitions

Liliane Tomasko at Kunstmuseum Kloster unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

Morpheus, 7 Sep 2021 – 6 Jan 2022

External exhibitions

Kimsooja at Bienalsur - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nomad, 15 Sep – 21 Nov 2021

External exhibitions

Jose Dávila at Moll Vell, Palma, Spain

Primitive Irruption, 18 Sep 2021 - 8 Jan 2022

External exhibitions

Marcelo Viquez in Palma and online

3 Barrios 3, 16 Sep – 16 Oct 2021

External exhibitions

Leiko Ikemura at Parc de la Mar, Palma, Spain

Usagi Kannon, 6 May – 29 Sep 2021

External exhibitions

Leiko Ikemura at Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, England

Usagi in Wonderland, 18 Jul – 12 Dec 2021

External exhibitions

Sean Scully at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, United States

The Shape of Ideas, 20 Jun - 10 Oct 2021

External exhibitions

Giovanni Anselmo, Kimsooja, Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

Socle du Monde Biennale, starting 12 Jun 2021

External exhibitions

Bertrand Lavier at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France

Ouverture, 22 May – 31 Dec 2021

External exhibitions

Viktor Pivovarov at the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Moscow Gothic, 14 May – 21 Nov 2021

Books

Books

Ghada Amer: Ceramics

Catalogue

Books

Elisabeth Frieberg: Rhythm Nature Movement God

Catalogue

Books

Liliane Tomasko: we sleep where we fall. Paintings 2000-2020

Catalogue