Callum Innes
30 May - 28 Jun 2008
CALLUM INNES
30 May - 28 June 2008
Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. This will be his third solo show at Kerlin Gallery and his first in Ireland since 2004.
Callum Innes came to international prominence in the early 1990s with his highly distinctive and rigorous approach to painting. His characteristic form of coolly atmospheric abstraction has aptly been described as 'unpainting', given that key compositional elements are generally produced, not solely by the application of paint, but also through its removal by careful application of turpentine.
“Innes’s particular process involves the removal as well as the application of paint. Pitting paint against turpentine or, less often shellac, he balances painting and un-painting somehow off-balance, the one not cancelling the other out, but adding to it, illuminating it, clarifying it.”
Fiona Bradley
Innes works in series - Exposed Paintings, Identified Forms, Isolated Forms, Resonance Paintings and Monologues. This exhibition will comprise of four distinct bodies of work including three paintings from an entirely new series, which has never been shown before. These new paintings are immediately arresting for their sensuous and intense colour, where half of the canvas is ‘unpainted’ to reveal a delicate grey bearing all but the faintest vestigial traces of color. The results are lyrical and luminous paintings that are both conceptually complex and evocative. The exhibition will also include five large framed works from a new body of paintings on paper.
Callum Innes, born in Edinburgh in 1962, is regarded as one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation, achieving widespread recognition through major solo and group shows worldwide. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995 and awarded the Natwest Art Prize in 1998 and the Jerwood Prize in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Aberdeen University. In 2004 he became an Associate Member of the Royal Scottish Academy
Notable solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2007), Modern Art Oxford (2007), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2006) and Tate St Ives, (2005). Group shows include Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line & Interval in Modern British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery (2006), Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated):Art from 1951 to the present, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004), The Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery (2004). Innes's work is held in many important collections worldwide including Tate Gallery, London, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin among others.
The most comprehensive monograph on Callum Innes's work to date, 'From memory,’ was recently published by Hatje Cantz
30 May - 28 June 2008
Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. This will be his third solo show at Kerlin Gallery and his first in Ireland since 2004.
Callum Innes came to international prominence in the early 1990s with his highly distinctive and rigorous approach to painting. His characteristic form of coolly atmospheric abstraction has aptly been described as 'unpainting', given that key compositional elements are generally produced, not solely by the application of paint, but also through its removal by careful application of turpentine.
“Innes’s particular process involves the removal as well as the application of paint. Pitting paint against turpentine or, less often shellac, he balances painting and un-painting somehow off-balance, the one not cancelling the other out, but adding to it, illuminating it, clarifying it.”
Fiona Bradley
Innes works in series - Exposed Paintings, Identified Forms, Isolated Forms, Resonance Paintings and Monologues. This exhibition will comprise of four distinct bodies of work including three paintings from an entirely new series, which has never been shown before. These new paintings are immediately arresting for their sensuous and intense colour, where half of the canvas is ‘unpainted’ to reveal a delicate grey bearing all but the faintest vestigial traces of color. The results are lyrical and luminous paintings that are both conceptually complex and evocative. The exhibition will also include five large framed works from a new body of paintings on paper.
Callum Innes, born in Edinburgh in 1962, is regarded as one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation, achieving widespread recognition through major solo and group shows worldwide. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995 and awarded the Natwest Art Prize in 1998 and the Jerwood Prize in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Aberdeen University. In 2004 he became an Associate Member of the Royal Scottish Academy
Notable solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2007), Modern Art Oxford (2007), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2006) and Tate St Ives, (2005). Group shows include Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line & Interval in Modern British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery (2006), Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated):Art from 1951 to the present, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004), The Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Art Gallery (2004). Innes's work is held in many important collections worldwide including Tate Gallery, London, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin among others.
The most comprehensive monograph on Callum Innes's work to date, 'From memory,’ was recently published by Hatje Cantz