Scully + Tomasko. Centro Cultural Bancaja. Valencia. September 2016 - January 2017
The exhibition Sean Scully + Liliane Tomasko, curated by Javier Molins, art critic and doctor of Fine Arts, stars the international abstract painters Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko, and is made up of a selection of more than 60 works. The works come from the Bancaja Foundation collection, the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (MNCARS), the IVAM and the private collection of artists, with works that have rarely been exhibited.
It is the first exhibition in Spain that performs such a broad retrospective of Sean Scully's work, from the 70s to the present, covering more than five decades of production. In addition, it is also the first exhibition that confronts Scully's work with that of Liliane Tomasko, two artists who also share their lives. This meeting will allow us to see in the same space the work of this couple of artists who have as their common link their inspiration in the contemplation of reality, although each one reflects it according to their own style.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog has been published that collects images of the works that are part of the exhibition and texts of the curator, Javier Molins, analysing their influences and their artistic creation processes.
Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) is an Irish painter based in New York for more than twenty years who stands out for his compositions of horizontal and vertical lines in which the color has a great prominence and in which he achieves a great harmony between the shapes and colours His work maintains a perfect balance between the gestural energy of abstract expressionism and the rigorous discipline of American minimalism. Scully has permanent work in prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA, the Guggenheim in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the K20 in Düsseldorf or the Albertina in Vienna.
Liliane Tomasko (Zurich, 1967) focuses her work on the observation of reality and, specifically, in the sphere of private and daily life. Tomasko photographs these objects and then moves them to painting in a series of works that seek the third dimension and, in recent years, tend to abstraction. Liliane Tomasko's work has recently been the subject of exhibitions in museums and galleries such as the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Garrison Arts Center in New York, the Timothy Taylor Gallery in London or the Kunsthalle de Rostock.
