{"product_id":"9783775763493","title":"Sean Scully: Tower","description":"Sean Scully, recently dubbed the \"most important living abstract painter,\" presents a radical reinvention and bold deconstruction of his previous work with his Tower paintings. These are paintings of allegorical force, constructed from tessellating panels of wood, felt, and aluminum. In them, spray paint meets competing grid structures and the glaring flash of street signs. Just as the shattered shards of Cubism at the beginning of the 20th century reflected anxieties about industrial change and the impending doom of World War I, Scully's Towers, with their manic fractures, capture the crises of the present a century later. In their disorder and disjunction, they are Towers of Babel – 25 years after 9\/11 and the collapse of the World Trade Center just blocks from the artist's studio. They pose the question of whether our society can ever be reconstructed or whether joy is to be found precisely in the tumult.\n\nSean Scully (b. 1945, Dublin) is one of the most important contemporary artists. The work of the Irish-born artist, who grew up in London and moved to New York in 1975, is characterized by an intensive engagement with Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting, and Minimalism – intellectually accompanied by numerous writings and lectures. Scully lives and works in New York, Aix-en-Provence, and Bavaria.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54343341277448,"sku":"9783775763493","price":36.97,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775763493.jpg?v=1774085352","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.com\/products\/9783775763493","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}