# Sean Scully: Human - Hardcover

by **Sean Scully** (Artist), **Kelly Grovier** (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), **Carmelo Grasso** (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

**A contemporary master abstractionist responds to a Venetian Renaissance masterpiece**

This generous volume gathers recent works and new, unseen pieces by celebrated New York-based Irish abstract artist Sean Scully (born 1945), who has created a series of new sculptures, paintings, drawings and watercolors directly inspired by the Venetian abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, its vast illuminated manuscript collections and the 16th-century Benedictine church. These works are instantly recognizable for Scully's visual vocabulary of horizontal and vertical stripes, which reflects fifty years of constant refining. _Human_ includes paintings from his _Madonna_ series, Scully's return to figuration after having ceased figurative painting five decades ago.

The fulcrum of the volume is the new and impressive _Opulent Ascension_, a site-specific sculpture that is Scully's tallest sculpture ever at 33 feet high, constructed from stacked frames, each wrapped in rich and varying colors of felt.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 10.8 x 8.5 IN

**Publication Date:** April 21, 2020

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