SEAN SCULLY AT MSU – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ZAGREB, CROATIA
THE PASSENGER 16 NOV 2022 – 12 MAR 2023
The retrospective presents sixty-four of Sean Scully’s seminal artworks – canvases, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures – as an extremely valuable cross-section of the painter’s work over the past fifty years.
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art – Zagreb
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art – Zagreb
Looking at Sean Scully’s oeuvre from the mid-sixties to the present day, the upcoming retrospective opens up a whole series of potential narratives, concurrences and contacts that may have happened in the past, as well as the foreboding of some future, perhaps unexpected recognitions of affinities and aspirations.
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art – Zagreb
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art – Zagreb
The exhibition opens with the Passenger as its title section which, in its nomadic features, combines the utopia of the universal language of art – constantly aspired to, at least declaratively – with the life experience of the artist, himself an emigrant. His intimate statement and personal history, abstracted into the visual language and its signs, construct the exhibition as an authentic testimony to an artistic journey that retains traces of doubts, uncertainties and disappointed hopes in the world of art and its complex unwritten rules and never-published laws.