SEAN SCULLY – LANDLINE DRIFTING 2024, oil on aluminium. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London • Paris •Salzburg • Seoul© Sean Scully
Bringing Soul to Seoul is the mission of international art gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, courtesy of the Irish artist Sean Scully. The exhibition titled Soul brings together six new works from his Wall of Light and Landline series. With their steel grey undertones these paintings trace Scully’s return to London. The artist cites “the muscular light of Constable” as a key inspiration as he integrates darkness and light in his abstract language with subtly variegated blocks of blue, red, green and purple laid down on copper, aluminium and linen. “I’m really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time” he has said, “the logical and the romantic”. Sean Scully, Soul is at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul Fort Hill from September 3 to November 9.
