On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully

Available now, 'On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully' by Kelly Grovier records hours of telephone conversations between Sean and art critic and friend Kelly, in which they discuss every aspect of his life and art.
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🎥 Video credits:
Recorded in the Sean Scully Gallery at The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Sean Scully Studio
The Hugh Lane
Kerlin Gallery
Video by Basil Al-Rawi / Bazar Productions

[@Jack-pp2ng]

I sat in that room and marveled at those paintings at the hugh lane in dublin

[@uchimataman]

I was at school with you Sean Scully. Forest Hill Comprehensive , in Sydenham, UK. My name is Trevor Collett. I had a very bad speech impediment and you bullied me every day. You stole my school years. In my last year, I decided to fight back. Like all bullies you were a coward. Instead of fighting one on one, you got your mates to beat me up in Mayow park after school. Because of you I took up judo. Turned out I had a flair for it and became a blackbelt, winning several tournaments. But I wish I could get my school years back where I spent playtimes hiding in the toilet because of you. Bullies only pick on people who won't fight back. I was never bullied again!

[@richardbritain7435]

It's clear to any rational person that Scully is a man who got amazingly lucky. He should really be a plasterer or brick layer. His art is utterly crap. It's a fantastically gigantic con.

[@olafsager6056]

They talk about minimalism as if they knew what minimalism is. I would say: direct your eyes to the spiritual world and try to see as much as you can. The few sparks that you get from there and that don't actually explain who we are, that's minimalism.
(from my com.museum, book 46)