The internationally renowned artist Sean Scully (*1945) is known above all for his abstract
expressively painted works. The artist creates large-format paintings with an intense
application of color and rough brushstrokes he often has checkered or striped patterns emerge
thus reproducing the aesthetic of geometric minimalism. In the planned exhibition at the
Albertina Sean Scully: Eleuthera Sean Scully and his art will be shown from a much more
private side. At the center of the exhibition is the Eleuthera series from the years 2016-17
in which Scully examines a very familiar topic. The series consists of twenty-five large-format
oil paintings depicting Oisín the artist's seven-year-old son playing on the beach of
Eleuthera an island in the Bahamas. The accompanying publication presents this new group of
works for the first time.
