Irish-American abstract artist Sean Scully counts Irish rocker Bono among his pals and collectors. He would not be unhappy if some of China’s 1.4 billion people also took a shine to his art being displayed at a retrospective in Shanghai later this month.
Scully, 69, and something of a bear of a man, is delighted that billionaire Chinese property developer Dai Zhikang will show some 100 of his artworks at his Shanghai Himalayas Museum from Nov. 24 until Jan. 25. The collection ranges from early in his career to the present day, many of them giant canvases painted with big rectangles of color.
The exhibition is, Scully said, the first big retrospective of modern abstract Western art ever mounted in China. He is pleased it is his works that have been selected, and not some of the perhaps buzzier contemporary art world figures like Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst.
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“My art is meant to be global and that’s why I do abstract art,” he told Reuters.
“But my work is not simply formalist, it’s layered with all kinds of artistic, social and cultural references and this I think has been very attractive to the Chinese.”
It also will be a test of whether Scully’s work can crack the increasingly booming Chinese art market. His works already are held by Western collectors and museums.
The exhibition will include early canvases when Scully began work as a figurative artist, including some land and seascapes, to the present-day paintings where geometric shapes predominate.
(Reuters)
愛爾蘭裔美國籍抽象主義畫家肖恩‧斯庫利視愛爾蘭搖滾歌手波諾為其好友，亦為其畫作收藏者。他樂見中國十四億人中有些人參訪斯庫利本月底於上海的回顧展並喜歡上其作品。
現年六十九歲、體格壯碩的斯庫利，對於中國富豪地產開發商戴誌康十一月二十四日起到明年一月二十五日在他創立的上海喜馬拉雅美術館展出其百餘件作品，感到高興。展出的收藏從斯庫利生涯早期到現時的作品都有，其中許多都是以大塊長方型色塊呈現的巨幅油畫。
斯庫利表示，該展覽是中國展出現代抽象西洋繪畫的首個大型回顧展。他很高興獲選參展的是其作品，而非像是傑夫‧昆斯或達米恩‧赫斯特這些在現代藝術界名氣更大藝術家的作品。
他告訴路透：「我的藝術一定要是全球性的，並且這是為何我從事抽象藝術。」
「但我的作品並不僅只拘泥型式，它是融合各式藝術、社會與文化的堆疊交織，就此理念，我想已經吸引許多中國民眾的目光。」
展覽將會是斯庫利作品能否打入愈來愈活絡的中國藝術市場的一場試驗。其一些作品已被西方收藏家與美術館收藏。
這次展覽將展出從斯庫利早期開始從事造型藝術工作時一些包括陸上與海上風景的油畫，直到當前斯庫利以幾何圖形創作為大宗的作品。
（路透／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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