Sean Scully: Tower

Lisson Gallery is pleased to present Tower, a solo exhibition by renowned painter Sean Scully featuring three interrelated bodies of work. The eponymous new series of Tower paintings represents a radical departure and a bold dismantling of his practice, each being formed from a concatenation of smaller, individual panels, seemingly employing different styles and diverse moments from his own painterly back catalogue. Through the disorder and disjuncture of these tessellating panels, incorporating gaps, overlaps and holes, comes a newfound harmony and rhythm, that also references an earlier, spiritual era of art – such as the perspectival depth and world building found in Quattrocento Italy – as well as the rupture of modern art – in Analytic Cubism or Lucio Fontana’s pierced surfaces, for example.