Category: Painting

A new reason to visit Barcelona by Sean Scully

Sean Scully Project, Santa Cecilia Church in Montserrat

I visited Barcelona last weekend. The reason was a true contemporary art pilgrimage to a chapel perched on top of the Montserrat mountains, one hour away from the city. Sean Scully (b. 1945) unveiled his permanent installation in Santa Cecilia church in June 2015. Scully has taken over the small Romanic chapel and conflated art and spirituality with his symbolic use of colours and the simplicity of his brushstroke.

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Warm up to Frieze week: Preview Gallery Tour in Mayfair

Jannis Kounellis, 'Senza titolo', 1963

Ahead of Frieze art fair, the following weeks I will be covering auction highlights, artworks to collect from the fair, the quirky and the overlooked. As a warm up, this week I am filling up your calendar with a hand-picked list of gallery openings in Mayfair. A selection of three contemporary art history totems. The three of them poetic, unruly, unmissable.

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