Sean Scully: Passenger

The exhibition features 64 of Scully’s artworks —canvases, works on paper, photographs, and a sculpture— an exquisite cross-section of the painter’s work over the past 50 years.

Sean Scully’s exhibition is a unique opportunity to see his heroic, monumental and emotionally immersive art in one of the largest art museums in Central Europe. Looking at his 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. The retrospective opens with the “Passenger” as its title section which, in its nomadic features, combines the utopia of the universal language of art with the life experience of the artist, an emigrant himself. His intimate statement and personal history, abstracted into the visual language, make the exhibition an authentic testimony of an artistic journey that retains traces of doubts, uncertainties in the world of art and its complex unwritten rules.