In a career lasting 50 years, Sean Scully has created a series of extremely influential works in the development of a new contemporary abstraction. Merging the traditions of European painting (in particular Impressionism) with the particularities of American abstraction, his oeuvre combines a certain form of pictorial drama with intense visual pleasure. The intimate and the monumental form the axis of an exceptional project by Sean Scully for Normandie Impressionniste. Saint-Nicolas Church in Caen, with its stunningly refined Romanesque beauty, is the perfect setting for a spectacular intervention made up of large-format paintings and monumental sculptures.
