Callum Innes: I'll Close my Eyes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 377574245X ISBN 13: 9783775742450

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

His large-format paintings always wish to be more than just square surfaces. Although the Scottish painter Callum Innes (*1962 in Edinburgh) has devoted himself and his inimitable brushwork mainly to this clearly delimited format since the 1990s, his Minimalist paintings primarily deal with the thorough exploration of painting. After painting a bar of color, he immerses his brush in turpentine and proceeds to remove what’s there. This is often followed by yet another coat and finally, another removal. Innes has steadily created poetic paintings, using different color combinations and intensities, as well as different materials―canvas, watercolor paper, and masonry. Photographs of installations and fascinating details allow readers to sense the effects of Innes’s art in a wonderful way. What at first seems to be merely abstract ultimately reveals gorgeous, hypnotic depth. Exhibition: De Pont Museum Tilburg 5.10.2016–26.2.2017

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About the Author

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, journalist and critic. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 377574245X
• ISBN 13: 9783775742450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Innes Callum, Bradley Fiona, Fer Briony, Foster Carter, Tóibín Colm