A chara, – I enjoyed both the opening of the Seán Scully exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland on May 12 th and The Social Network’s coverage of the event (“’Limitless love’ on display for Sean Scully’s 50 years of art”, Weekend Review, May 16th).
For the artist, 2015 is indeed a busy year. As your writers note, his work is being shown “in Venice, Beijing, Sao Paolo, Barcelona, as well as Germany, France and Austria. Not to mention the Kerlin and Hugh Lane in Dublin”. It was an oversight, no doubt, to exclude “Seán Scully: Figure Abstract”, the career-spanning exhibition of Scully’s work that the arts writer Tina Darb and I are curating at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork from June 26th to September 12th.“Figure Abstract” is Scully’s first museum show in Cork and coincides with his 70th birthday on June 30th.
It will feature more than 80 works from 1964 to the present, most of which have never been exhibited before.
To mark the occasion, and to celebrate Scully’s achievements as an Irish artist on the international stage, the Crawford Gallery will restore the síneadh fada over the “a” in the spelling of “Seán” for the duration of the run of “Figure Abstract” in Cork. – Is mise,
MARC O’SULLIVAN,
Cork.