Sean Scully - Walls of Aran
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Sean Scully is one of today’s best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting. This book brings together for the first time his photographs of the dry stone walls found on the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland.
Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945. He grew up in London and
works in New York and Barcelona. He has exhibited widely in Europe
and the United States: including exhibitions at the Kunstammlung
Nordeim Westfalen in Dusseldoerf, Germany, (2001); the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York (2000); the Milwaukee Art Museum, Denver
Art Museum, and Albright-Knox Gallery (1998–99); Galeria Arte
Moderna,Villa delle Rose in Bologna, and Galerie National de Jeu de
Paumme in Paris (1996). His work may be found in museum collections
worldwide, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York;The Art
Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.; Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain;Tate Gallery in London, England;The
Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland; and Nagoya City Art
Museum, Japan. Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, journalist and critic. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.