![]() Sean Scully: My first encounter with Minimalism came when I was in New York, though it had already started while I was in England. Rajesh Punj: Could we begin by talking about your love-hate relationship with abstraction and its cousin, Minimalism? Photo: © Jonty Wilde, © Sean Scully, Courtesy the artist and YSP Art, as he forcefully explains, has a duty to deliver something greater than intellectualism and lofty ideals removed from the aesthetic truth that lies in the humanizing force of toil and tears.īrown Tower, 2015. His work is a cathartic act that always comes back to what it means to have lived. ![]() He explains his work as an invitation for viewers to feel something and to apply what they feel to themselves. Like Cy Twombly before him, Scully sees art devoid of emotion as dishonest. Concentrating on feelings for materials, these and other works call on human experience as a point of entry. Years of manual labor, for instance, stand behind his “stack” sculptures, which hang in space like monuments to a state of mind. Throughout his career, Scully has used hardship as motivator and inspiration. By making Minimalism “emotional,” he advances the personal over formal concerns, emancipating his works from a Sol LeWitt-like cage and introducing a freedom refused by Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman in their day. For Irish-born, American artist Sean Scully, autobiography and experience serve as correctives to the dry determinism of Minimalism.
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