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Article: SEAN SCULLY.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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GALERIE LELONG/DANESE
Sean Scully's concurrent shows proved that abstraction is not dead. The work on view was neither reprise nor parody but the carrying forward of those abstract staples of modernism - geometry and gesture - to new aesthetic heights. At Galerie Lelong, the artist presented two contrastlng series (all works 1998), the four large canvases that make up his "Walls of Light," along with two examples of his unusual "Floating Paintings," which project from the wall perpendicularly rather than resting flat against it. At Danese, Scully exhibited five medium-size paintings displaying formal similarities to the "Wall of Light" series. These works at once ...
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