Sean Scully

The Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Sean Scully at 24 Dering Street, which will be complemented by several previously unseen sketchbooks of preparatory drawings. Concurrently in our new gallery at 21 Dering Street we will exhibit a retrospective of Scully’s prints from the last six years.
 
For this new show, Scully continues to explore the ‘Wall of Light’ theme, originally inspired by a trip to Zihuetanejo, Mexico, in 1983. These paintings are an ongoing exploration of geometrical abstraction. A new use of black is very much in evidence, confidently obscuring much of the sensual colour of previous ‘Wall of Light’ paintings.
 
There is a visceral quality, a relationship with the glop and stuff of paint that provides its own poetics, its own dialectic, beyond any theories about form. Something of this life force seeps from behind and around the edges of his rectangles. It is as if his grid-like geometric structures had been superimposed on something more profound, something primitive and chthonic.
Sue Hubbard, 2006