Works by one of the most important contemporary artists, Sean Scully, are on show at the Hungarian National Gallery from 17 May. The Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery organised an exhibition from the oeuvre of Scully in 2020, after which the artist donated significant works to the Museum of Fine Arts: these are now displayed at the Hungarian National Gallery.

The Hungarian National Gallery’s current exhibition displays these donated works, offering a wide-ranging overview of Scully’s oeuvre: the painterly structure of his Uninsideout is made up of insets, overpainted surfaces as well as various motifs and textures placed side by side, above and under one another, helping visitors to make visual connections between his iPhone drawings reinterpreting motifs of his art, the soft patches of his aquatint series Landlines and Robes and the fine hatchings of his recent pencil drawings. These works being exhibited together not only highlights the significant motifs of the artist’s oeuvre but also lends emphasis to a crucial yet thus far less discussed feature of his art: the wide range of media he uses, the importance of genre crossovers, diversity in unity, and unity in diversity.

Sean Scully was born in 1945 in Dublin. Now he lives and works in New York, Bavaria, Aix-en-Provence and London. His works can be found in the collections of virtually all the prominent museums worldwide.

The exhibition is available until September 1, 2024.
More information: https://en.mng.hu/exhibitions/sean-scully-uninsideout/