COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

From 30 March to 10 June 2012, the chapel of the Palace of Carlos V will be the venue for Sean Scully: Southern Light, an exhibition organised by Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife (PAG) to pay tribute to the American painter (Dublin, 1945) and in which the Alhambra and the light of southern Spain play leading roles. The exhibition catalogue has been published in conjunction with TF Editores.

Scully, a Dublin-born American painter and photographer, has twice been nominated for the Turner prize and his work is collected in major museums and galleries worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; and Tate Gallery, London.

In 2010, PAG organised an exhibition dedicated to Matisse, who visited the Alhambra in 1910. One hundred years later, Sean Scully has followed in his footsteps, with the same ideal. Both artists came to the region in search of the southern light – Matisse, the light of the fauve avant-garde of the early 20th century, and Scully, light as a living material, as it is when it plays on the walls and courtyards of the Alhambra.