中文简介：

爱尔兰画家Sean Scully（生于1945年）常年在美国纽约创作和生活，他的作品持续探索了色彩带和色块，以朦胧的边缘和笔触来吸引观众，提升了油漆和颜料的物质性。本书提供了对艺术家方法的深入了解，这些方法通过与艺术史上的形式主义传统的持续接触而演变。在一篇深入的文章中，Raphy Sarkissian将Scully的作品与选定的抽象和具象、现代和前现代绘画和雕塑作品，以及瑞士艺术史学家Heinrich Wölfflin的美学理论进行对话。这种对话在哥本哈根Thorvaldsens博物馆的建筑和新古典主义雕塑之间的相互作用中继续进行，该博物馆是本次展览的展出场所。

英文简介：

The oeuvre of New York–based Irish painter Sean Scully (born 1945) constitutes a continuous exploration of bands and swathes of color, captivating the viewer with hazily defined edges and brushstrokes that exalt the materiality of paint and pigment. Material World provides insight into the artist's methods, which have evolved through a sustained engagement with the art historical tradition of formalism. In an in-depth essay, Raphy Sarkissian places Scully's work in dialogue with selected works of abstract and figurative, modern and premodern painting and sculpture, as well as with aesthetic theories such as those of Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin. This dialogue continues in the interplay of the architecture of the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen at which this exhibition is displayed and the neoclassical sculptures that are presented alongside Scully's work.