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In Catalonia alone, where the Dublin-born, New York-based artist used to live, his stained glass windows can be found at the Baroque-style Girona Cathedral, while the chapel of the Santa Cecilia de Montserrat monastery is a permanent home to some of his signature stripe paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI love religion,\u201d Scully tells me as we sip on strong espressos, contemplating his freshly-installed geometrical steel sculpture in the gardens of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice\u2019s 16th-century Basilica. \u201cAll religions,\u201d he adds. A surprising statement from the Irish-born <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enfant terrible <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the art world, whose formative years were tainted by poverty and the oppression of the Catholic church. \u201cI was ripped out of the convent school when I was seven, by my intemperate mother,\u201d remembers the artist, now 73. \u201cIt\u2019s dark, there is a certain shadow,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut I\u2019m very respectful of it and I love it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":76596,"id":76596,"title":"3. 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Courtesy of the artist."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his new exhibition which opened this week to coincide with the Venice Biennale, Scully delves into the spiritual with a series of new sculptures, paintings, drawings and watercolour inspired by the Benedictine church, designed four centuries ago by Venetian renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The show features Scully\u2019s tallest sculpture to date, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opulent Ascension<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rising ten metres into the air and wrapped in multicoloured felt, under the church\u2019s central dome. But the true highlight is a triptych from his new series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madonna, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marking the artist\u2019s return to figuration for the first time in five decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An attempt at demonstrating the full-breadth of his painting abilities? Not quite. \u201cI wanted to paint pictures of my son on the beach,\u201d says the artist, showing me the original photo on his phone of his wife with their 10-year old child, which served as a model for the series of vibrant paintings, composed of contoured monochromatic blocks \u2014 not dissimilar to his early works from the 1960s. \u201cIn a way, I wanted to show how infinite painting is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it may look like a U-turn, some of Scully\u2019s most iconic abstractions have long flirted with figuration. In a previous interview, when launching an exhibition at Cuadra San Crist\u00f3bal \u2014 the Luis Barragan-designed scenic stables on the outskirt of Mexico City \u2014 the artist told me how the stacking of stones in Pre-Columbian and vernacular constructions impacted much of his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wall of Light<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series in the late 1990s, introducing stripes and bars, arranged vertically and horizontally. \u201cMy abstraction, as you know, has always been a little bit dirty,\u201d he tells me, pointing to his use of thick paint and non-traditional materials like aluminium, instead of canvas. \u201cso I was criticised for that,\u201d he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":76597,"id":76597,"title":"1. 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Photo: Stefan Josef M\u00fcller, courtesy of the artist"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid today\u2019s growing comeback of figurative painting, Scully\u2019s return to the genre wasn\u2019t planned, he says. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect my first son to die either, which really nearly destroyed me,\u201d remembers the artist of the tragic event in 1983, when his child from a first marriage died in a car accident. \u201cAnd I think it accounted for a lot of the fierce austerity in my work,\u201d he continues. \u201cSome of my paintings are almost unliveable with their anger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scully\u2019s tormented past was most recently featured in the much-talked-about BBC documentary, titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m00041pb\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unstoppable: Sean Scully And the Art of Everything<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film, released in April, depicts a the artist\u2019s celebrity-like, lavish lifestyle, showing him hopping on and off private jets, nonchalantly dropping by his multiple high-profile exhibition openings around the world (currently, he is the subject of a solo show at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/exhibitions\/sea-star-sean-scully-at-the-national-gallery\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Gallery in London<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) while making countless questionable remarks. Scully, unsurprisingly, is not impressed. \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous,\u201d he tells me, \u201cthe guy who made it wanted to make it as sensational as possible. My life is really spent in the studio and taking my son to school. I\u2019m one of the mummies. But it\u2019s just not what he shows.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For now, he is in the company of the monks, at San Giorgio Maggiore. One of them, coincidentally, turned out to be an abstract painter (\u201csee, you never know!\u201d). They gifted Scully with a thick, empty manuscript, tasking him to fill it. (\u201cBeing a good little slave,\u201d the artist jokes). Has he fulfilled their request? Scully spent the past eight months filling it with his own writing, sketches and watercolours, now on display in the choir stalls behind the altar, the pages being turned daily by the monks. \u201cI love to do things for sacred places,\u201d he smiles.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/human-venice.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Sean Scully, is curated by Javier Molins and presented in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore Abbey San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice running through to 13 October 2019.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How superstar abstract painter Sean Scully returned to figuration How superstar abstract painter Sean Scully returned to figuration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sean-scully\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How superstar abstract painter Sean Scully returned to figuration How superstar abstract painter Sean Scully returned to figuration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sean-scully\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-05-10T15:45:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-10T15:56:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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