The Jamileh Weber gallery is honored and proud to present seven new large-scale paintings of Sean Scully. After 1991, 1997 and the presentation of his photographical oeuvre 2003 this is the fourth major exhibition at the gallery. More than any other artist of his generation, Mr. Scully combines formal European traditions of painting (Matisse, Mondrian) with forms of aesthetic experience rooted in American abstraction (Rothko, Pollock). He is one of the most admired contemporary artists to carry the painterly tradition into the twenty-first century and occupies an important position in the development of painting. Sean Scully's work is widely collected and internationally exhibited. Mr. Scully's familiar style of lines, bands, stripes of color is his instantly recognizable signature for more than thirty years. Since 1998 Mr. Scully has worked on a series of paintings and works on paper called Wall of Light. These works originated in watercolors he made in Mexico in the early 1980s inspired by the play of light on ancient stone walls. The Wall of Light- paintings transform Scully's familiar stripes into masonry blocks of two to four bricklike forms placed in alternating vertical and horizontal rows. The blocks built up in layers of colors applied in a strong, intense way, so that the brushstroke shows and becomes part of the color itself. It shows the making, its physical and sensual force. Mr. Scully says, that he wants the power of the idea come across. Sean Scully approaches absolute singular colors, all intuitively. They are charged with the energy of a constant presence. His colors were described as deep, hard to grasp, impossible to name. Perhaps their singularity, honesty and beauty show "that compression of life, time and the making of the object", as Mr. Scully has characterized his work. And there are the chinks in his paintings, places where light and time seeps through from far behind the picture plane. A compression of all the different moments within the painting enters the world. Generally Mr. Scully paints on medium-textured, sized linen. He says that the visible texture gives the viewer a sense of the material and a tangible connection to the history of painting. In addition this exhibition also shows a work painted on aluminum reminding on the floating painting of the mid nineties. Scale and size of his paintings are important to Mr. Scully. His big, majestic paintings sit in dialogue with his small works having a beautifully sensitivity, density and completeness. The show will remain on view through Saturday, December 1, 2007 at the Jamileh Weber Gallery, Waldmannstrasse 6, CH-8001 Zurich. Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm and by appointment. For further information or photographs please contact the gallery, phone: +41-44-252 10 66, fax: +41-44-252 11 32 email: info@jamilehweber.com, www.jamilehweber.com